From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>, meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: MH & thread support
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 09:51:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220201095139.GA7613@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dbc5nnq.fsf@kyleam.com>
Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> Jakub Kicinski writes:
> > - how do the plans for MH email format support look? It'd be great to
> > fetch emails with lei directly to claws-mail (which seems to be used
> > by a number of kernel devs, at least)
>
> I don't have any informed opinions on this and don't know what Eric's
> thoughts are, but fwiw this is what he wrote in lei-mail-formats(5):
>
> MH
> Not yet supported, locking semantics (or lack thereof) appear to make
> it unsuitable for parallel access. It is widely-supported by a variety
> of MUAs and mailing list managers, however.
Yeah, read-write is tricky since I don't know how parallel writers
handle sequence numbers or message flags w/o stepping over each other.
Write-to-temp-file-then-rename means one of the renamers loses...
Read-only is more likely, maybe... I fear I'm too drain bamaged :<
And whatever gets added ends up being support a burden forever.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-01 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-06 18:10 MH & thread support Jakub Kicinski
2022-01-07 1:40 ` Kyle Meyer
2022-01-07 2:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-02-01 9:51 ` Eric Wong [this message]
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