Re: [bug-mailutils] Re: movemail on Debian

[Dave Love]

"Alain Magloire" <address@hidden> writes:

> Although, I can not guaranty, we will start to work on it right away(you know
> summer .. good weather and all 8).

No pressure!  Thanks.

> Sure would like to here the nay's and what is needed to address a
> new rewrite of movemail not to repeat the errors of the past.

I don't think it's a question of errors, just missing features, such
as supporting more mailbox types and making locking dynamically
configurable.

The XEmacs version has been extended, and it would be good to follow
that:

Usage: movemail [-rvxkh] [-l lines ] [-m method ] [-i] inbox [-o] destfile 
[[-p] POP-password]
where method is one of: dot, lockf, flock
Default is: dot

And the options list is:

struct option longopts[] =
{
  { "inbox",                    required_argument,         NULL,        'i'     
},
  { "outfile",                  required_argument,         NULL,        'o'     
},
#ifdef MAIL_USE_POP
  { "password",                 required_argument,         NULL,        'p'     
},
  { "reverse-pop-order",                no_argument,               NULL,        
'x'     },
  { "keep-messages",            no_argument,               NULL,        'k'     
},
  { "regex",                    required_argument,         NULL,        'r'     
},
  { "match-lines",              required_argument,         NULL,        'l'     
},
#endif
  { "lock-method",              required_argument,         NULL,        'm'     
},

At least some of the XEmacs changes have a copyright assignment, but
it's not likely to be necessary to use any of that code if the
mailutils library has the basic functionality.