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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: support for non mbox style mailboxes?
From:       Philippe Fremy <fremy () yalbi ! com>
Date:       2001-01-26 12:58:34
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> Are there any plans to have kmail support other mailbox formats?  With
> some proper object design, kmail should be able to open and handle any
> mailbox format that someone has written a module for.  There is a GNU
Well, it as almost already the case. The mailbox format is handled through 
one class alone, so supporting other format is just a matter of extending 
this class.

There are plans to move the mailbox format to a database based thing. But 
thinking more about that, I think it would be perhaps good to have access 
to multiple formats mbox formats.

Database mail is ok for people using only kmail. I personally mix pine and 
kmail so I would like to still have access to the mbox style format. And 
people are perhaps willing to mix kmail with other mail client that use a 
different format. I'm not suggesting kmail should support every format, 
only that if someone wants to add one, it should be easy for him.


> project called mailutils that is doing this in C, as is evolution.
Do you have a homepage for mailutils ? I could only find a discussion on 
the debian mailing-list.

Philippe

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