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   1 [TODO]
   2
   3 * fix msh/mmdf problems.
   4 * Add IPv6 support.
   5 * Write different function to read configuration files, instead
   6   of using m_getfld.c
   7 * convert calls from sprintf/vsprintf to snprintf/vsnprintf
   8 * convert calls from getcpy to strdup
   9 * modularize access to context/profile list.
  10 * add command printm to print messages
  11 * finish changing to macros for msgstats and msgflags
  12 * Add support for Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To
  13 * Add support for profile entry "Mailing-Lists"
  14 * let mhn and mhl accept files on standard in, and output to
  15   standard out, when filtering files.
  16 * Add switch -more to `show' to call moreproc.
  17 * Add new command "show" at WhatNow? prompt.
  18 * Add command to reverse the action of rmm [-nounlink] -- "urmm"?  "umm"?  "um"?
  19 * Allow user customization of which kinds of text parts in multipart/alternative
  20   messages are preferred.  It would be nice if one selectable behavior would be
  21   to be prompted at runtime for which version to show.
  22 * Add a new %-escape that makes temp files more permanent than %f, so that you
  23   can use gnuclient -q or netscape -remote on message parts.  Put netscape
  24   -remote in mhn.defaults for text/html once this is done.
  25 * Change all man pages to group all the commandline options together in one
  26   section with each as a separate mini-heading.  Having to dig through prose to
  27   find what a particular option does is a pain in the nads.
  28 * Add some way to configure whether you prefer to see text/plain or text/html
  29   parts of multipart/alternative messages.
  30 * Allow multiple simultaneous differing contexts, probably each tied to a parent
  31   (terminal) process.
  32
  33 [POSSIBILITIES]
  34
  35 MAN PAGES
  36 ---------
  37 * Update mh-tailor man page.
  38 * update default mode in man pages with sed
  39
  40 SEQUENCES
  41 ---------
  42 * Change so you can have more than 26 sequences.  Unfortunately,
  43   given the way that the bit flags for sequences work, this is
  44   not easy.
  45 * Maybe add option gracefully handle empty sequences (-force).
  46
  47 ENVIRONMENT/PROFILE
  48 -------------------
  49 * Maybe add profile entry "Pager" to change the default pager?
  50 * Should nmh check for EDITOR or PAGER environment variable?
  51
  52 OPTIONS
  53 -------
  54 * change switches to accept two dashes (--help)
  55 * can we move option checking to its own function?  Currently each
  56   command is doing that itself.
  57 * make the option parsing code dynamic, so that there is no limit
  58   to the number of command line arguments (this has been done for
  59   most all the commands).
  60 * Add switch descriptions to -help output.
  61
  62 COMP
  63 ----
  64 * add option so that prompter can be used to input addresses,
  65   before the real editor is called to edit message.
  66 * fix -nowhatnowproc switch. Right now whatnowproc starts the edit
  67   session instead of comp, so -nowhatnowproc does nothing.
  68
  69 FLIST
  70 -----
  71 * add -format option so you can specify the look of the output
  72   of flist.
  73 * add Flist-Exclude profile component
  74
  75 FOLDER
  76 ------
  77 * add Folder-Order profile component (same as flist)
  78 * add Folder-Exclude profile component
  79
  80 FORMATS
  81 -------
  82 * add escape %(sequence{foobar}) to detect arbitrary sequences.
  83
  84 FORW
  85 ----
  86 * Decode RFC-2047 headers in messages included when replying
  87   or forwarding.
  88 * Merge code for forw and repl.
  89
  90 INC
  91 ---
  92 * Add ability to do filtering (call filterproc) when incorporating mail
  93 * Change inc to use libary function folder_addmsg().
  94
  95 MHBUILD
  96 -------
  97 * add ability to specify Content-Transfer-Encoding in composition
  98   drafts.
  99 * remove the code for caching from mhbuild.
 100
 101 MHL
 102 ---
 103 * remove naming hack in mhlsbr.c for adios and done.
 104 * add ability to filter parts of the message by calling
 105   an external filtering program.
 106 * fix internal pager for mhl?
 107
 108 MHMAIL
 109 ------
 110 * add -attach option (send could use this).  This should
 111   be done by hooking in mhbuildsbr.c
 112
 113 MHN/MHSHOW/MHLIST/MHSTORE
 114 -------------------------
 115 * add way so user can tell mhn to use internal method for
 116   handling type, such as multipart/mixed.
 117 * add way so user can tell mhn to use a certain `proc' such
 118   as moreproc, for certain content types.
 119 * add support for Content-Disposition header (rfc1806, rfc2183).
 120 * merge the two places in which mhshowsbr.c reads display
 121   strings.
 122 * when storing to a folder, should we save the folder context
 123   first, so that storage string of "+" stores to the new
 124   folder?
 125
 126 MSH
 127 ---
 128 * change conditional includes in msh.c to use termios.h
 129 * Add -version to mshcmd.c for each command.
 130 * Change msh to use mbox style files, instead of mmdf.  Add options -mbox,
 131   -mmdf to choose.
 132 *) There are couple calls to copyip() which should be changed to
 133    getarguments().  One problem is freeing the string getcopy'ed by
 134    getarguments().
 135
 136 PICK
 137 ----
 138 * split regex code out into library.
 139 * replace regex code with Henry Spencer's regex library.
 140
 141 POST
 142 ----
 143 * make -msgid the default
 144 * factor msgid code into own function
 145
 146 PROMPTER
 147 --------
 148 * maybe add ability to use prompter just for headers, and
 149   then use primary editor for editing message.
 150
 151 RCVSTORE
 152 --------
 153 * Change rcvstore so that it can store into multiple folders.
 154 * Add folder locking.
 155
 156 REPL
 157 ----
 158 * Decode RFC-2047 headers in messages included when replying
 159   or forwarding.
 160 * Merge code for forw and repl.
 161
 162 SEND/SENDSBR
 163 ------------
 164 * Add ability for returned messages from "send -push" to be
 165   in MIME format (this is actually a change in mhmail).
 166 * make -msgid the default.
 167 * Add RFC-2047 encoding support for out-going messages.  This
 168   will probably require hooking mhparse into sendsbr.c, and doing
 169   a complete MIME parsing.  Then all handling of Content encoding
 170   can be on the backend.
 171
 172 SLOCAL
 173 -----
 174 * Change slocal to use .slocalrc file, instead of .maildelivery?
 175 * Add ability to use regular expressions in header matching.
 176 * Add support for Berkeley db.
 177 * Clean up output from -debug option.
 178 * Add -debuglevel to control the amount of debug info that is output.
 179 * Add -debuglog to specify file to save debugging output.
 180 * Add -logfile (or -audit) to specify where to record info about successful
 181   deliveries.
 182
 183 MTA INTERFACE
 184 -------------
 185 * Fix locking code.  Add lockfile command.
 186 * Think about support for DSN (Delivery Status Notification)
 187 * Test nmh with qmail.  Add qmail's maildir format.
 188 * Relax restrictions on what can be done with headers in send/post.
 189 * figure out why smail.c and client.c need their own copies of
 190   getcpy, copyip, etc... (funny linking problem)
 191
 192 GENERAL
 193 -------
 194 * see if the various versions of copyfile and copyf can be
 195   merged.
 196 * Add MH-6.8.4 features into nmh (mostly done).
 197 * Maybe should move etcpath to sbr and add to libmh.
 198 * collect winsize, struct termio, etc... together into a ttyinfo
 199   structure.
 200 * change adios to take exit code argument.
 201 * use wait3 if not waitpid (maybe)
 202 * some of the calls to setjmp/longjmp should be replaced with
 203   sigsetjmp/siglongjmp.
 204 * replace use of ftell with fgetpos.