From: Julian Phillips Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:29:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Controversial blob munging series Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Being stuck with Pine, which still does not do Maildir, and wanting > to be able to read my mails as distributed as I am working on documents > and software projects, I always dreamt of having all my mail in Git. > > With filters, it should be relatively easy to do that. Before checking in, > the individual mailbox files are split, the contents are put into the > object database, and the mailbox file is replaced by a text file > consisting of the SHA1s of the mails. > > Ideally, I would eventually not only teach Pine to understand Maildir > format, but read and store the mails in a Git backend. Alas, I am way too > lazy for that. You do know about Eduardo Chappa's patches for pine? In particular http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/info/maildir.html. -- Julian --- Windows contains FAT. Use Linux -- you won't ever have to worry about your weight. -- Ewout Stam