17 Dec
2004
17 Dec
'04
2:07 a.m.
On 17.12.2004, at 00:25, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
Do you mean real pipes? I think mbox code could be pretty easily modified to support pipes so that reading always shows empty mailbox but writing works.
I meant real pipes, yep. I don't know how well you could map them to IMAP semantics though. A pipe would be something you would file a message into, at which point the message would be fed into a program rather than filed into a folder. Is it possible to have a write-only folder using IMAP? Or does the folder have to present a read interface too?
There has to be read interface, but nothing requires that any messages ever exist there. CVS supports now named pipes as write-only mboxes.