Subject: Will IMSP handle .newsrc's?

From: [email-masked] (Trey Harris)
Date: 5 Jun 1995 05:31:49 GMT

I just reread Myers draft on IMSP, and I can't find whether or not it 
will support .newsrc's.  This isn't explicitly spelled out, but I suppose 
that it can be handled as a configuration variable like any other.

Has anyone (particularly in the Pine development team) considered this 
issue?  How will .newsrc files be handled over IMSP?
-- 
Trey Harris                              http://sunsite.unc.edu/harris
  System Administrator, Project Isis, Office of Information Technology
                       The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 15:34:33 -0700

> issue?  How will .newsrc files be handled over IMSP?

The short answer is that 99% of my attention has been focused on IMAP4
protocol and development, and that other than verifying that IMSP is A
Good Thing the draft has only been skimmed.

Now that the c-client based IMAP4 toolkit is in alpha test (it's on
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-4.ALPHA.tar.Z if you haven't gotten
the word yet), IMSP will be looming as the next major development effort.

I think that it is a safe assumption that IMSP will evolve, based upon our
experiences with fitting it to Pine's needs.   Hopefully, there won't be
*much* evolution needed.  But a lot of important matters were shelved on
the grounds that "this should be handled in IMSP, not IMAP4", and all of
these are going to come back up again.

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