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   1 [TODO]
   2
   3 * fix msh/mmdf problems.
   4 * Add IPv6 support.
   5 * Check/fix compilation on 64-bit systems.
   6 * Write different function to read configuration files, instead
   7   of using m_getfld.c
   8 * convert calls from sprintf/vsprintf to snprintf/vsnprintf
   9 * convert calls from getcpy to strdup
  10 * modularize access to context/profile list.
  11 * add command printm to print messages
  12 * finish changing to macros for msgstats and msgflags
  13 * Add support for Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To
  14 * Add support for profile entry "Mailing-Lists"
  15 * let mhn and mhl accept files on standard in, and output to
  16   standard out, when filtering files.
  17 * Add switch -more to `show' to call moreproc.
  18 * Add new command "show" at WhatNow? prompt.
  19 * Add command to reverse the action of rmm [-nounlink] -- "urmm"?  "umm"?  "um"?
  20 * Allow user customization of which kinds of text parts in multipart/alternative
  21   messages are preferred.  It would be nice if one selectable behavior would be
  22   to be prompted at runtime for which version to show.
  23 * Add a new %-escape that makes temp files more permanent than %f, so that you
  24   can use gnuclient -q or netscape -remote on message parts.  Put netscape
  25   -remote in mhn.defaults for text/html once this is done.
  26 * Change all man pages to group all the commandline options together in one
  27   section with each as a separate mini-heading.  Having to dig through prose to
  28   find what a particular option does is a pain in the nads.
  29 * Add some way to configure whether you prefer to see text/plain or text/html
  30   parts of multipart/alternative messages.
  31 * Flag bogus/misspelled mts.conf "masquerade:" / --enable-masquerade options.
  32 * Allow multiple simultaneous differing contexts, probably each tied to a parent
  33   (terminal) process.
  34
  35 [POSSIBILITIES]
  36
  37 MAN PAGES
  38 ---------
  39 * Update mh-tailor man page.
  40 * generate mh-chart man page from other man pages
  41 * update default mode in man pages with sed
  42
  43 SEQUENCES
  44 ---------
  45 * Change so you can have more than 26 sequences.  Unfortunately,
  46   given the way that the bit flags for sequences work, this is
  47   not easy.
  48 * Maybe add option gracefully handle empty sequences (-force).
  49
  50 ENVIRONMENT/PROFILE
  51 -------------------
  52 * Maybe add profile entry "Pager" to change the default pager?
  53 * Should nmh check for EDITOR or PAGER environment variable?
  54
  55 POP
  56 ---
  57 * Clean up uip/spop.c (I dont' think it's needed any longer).
  58 * Need to decide if want to support APOP, RPOP, MPOP.  APOP
  59   and RPOP still work, but need autoconf support added.  Does
  60   anyone still use this stuff?
  61
  62 OPTIONS
  63 -------
  64 * change switches to accept two dashes (--help)
  65 * can we move option checking to its own function?  Currently each
  66   command is doing that itself.
  67 * make the option parsing code dynamic, so that there is no limit
  68   to the number of command line arguments (this has been done for
  69   most all the commands).
  70 * Add switch descriptions to -help output.
  71
  72 COMP
  73 ----
  74 * add option so that prompter can be used to input addresses,
  75   before the real editor is called to edit message.
  76 * fix -nowhatnowproc switch. Right now whatnowproc starts the edit
  77   session instead of comp, so -nowhatnowproc does nothing.
  78
  79 FLIST
  80 -----
  81 * add -format option so you can specify the look of the output
  82   of flist.
  83 * add Flist-Exclude profile component
  84
  85 FOLDER
  86 ------
  87 * add Folder-Order profile component (same as flist)
  88 * add Folder-Exclude profile component
  89
  90 FORMATS
  91 -------
  92 * add escape %(sequence{foobar}) to detect arbitrary sequences.
  93
  94 FORW
  95 ----
  96 * Decode RFC-2047 headers in messages included when replying
  97   or forwarding.
  98 * Merge code for forw and repl.
  99
 100 INC
 101 ---
 102 * Add ability to do filtering (call filterproc) when incorporating mail
 103 * Change inc to use libary function folder_addmsg().
 104
 105 MHBUILD
 106 -------
 107 * add ability to specify Content-Transfer-Encoding in composition
 108   drafts.
 109 * remove the code for caching from mhbuild.
 110
 111 MHL
 112 ---
 113 * remove naming hack in mhlsbr.c for adios and done.
 114 * add ability to filter parts of the message by calling
 115   an external filtering program.
 116 * fix internal pager for mhl?
 117
 118 MHMAIL
 119 ------
 120 * add -attach option (send could use this).  This should
 121   be done by hooking in mhbuildsbr.c
 122
 123 MHN/MHSHOW/MHLIST/MHSTORE
 124 -------------------------
 125 * add way so user can tell mhn to use internal method for
 126   handling type, such as multipart/mixed.
 127 * add way so user can tell mhn to use a certain `proc' such
 128   as moreproc, for certain content types.
 129 * add support for Content-Disposition header (rfc1806, rfc2183).
 130 * merge the two places in which mhshowsbr.c reads display
 131   strings.
 132 * when storing to a folder, should we save the folder context
 133   first, so that storage string of "+" stores to the new
 134   folder?
 135
 136 MSH
 137 ---
 138 * change conditional includes in msh.c to use termios.h
 139 * Add -version to mshcmd.c for each command.
 140 * Change msh to use mbox style files, instead of mmdf.  Add options -mbox,
 141   -mmdf to choose.
 142 *) There are couple calls to copyip() which should be changed to
 143    getarguments().  One problem is freeing the string getcopy'ed by
 144    getarguments().
 145
 146 PICK
 147 ----
 148 * split regex code out into library.
 149 * replace regex code with Henry Spencer's regex library.
 150
 151 POST
 152 ----
 153 * make -msgid the default
 154 * factor msgid code into own function
 155
 156 PROMPTER
 157 --------
 158 * maybe add ability to use prompter just for headers, and
 159   then use primary editor for editing message.
 160
 161 RCVSTORE
 162 --------
 163 * Change rcvstore so that it can store into multiple folders.
 164 * Add folder locking.
 165
 166 REPL
 167 ----
 168 * Decode RFC-2047 headers in messages included when replying
 169   or forwarding.
 170 * Merge code for forw and repl.
 171
 172 SEND/SENDSBR
 173 ------------
 174 * Maybe add `-server' and `-client' to documentation.
 175 * Add ability for returned messages from "send -push" to be
 176   in MIME format (this is actually a change in mhmail).
 177 * make -msgid the default.
 178 * Add RFC-2047 encoding support for out-going messages.  This
 179   will probably require hooking mhparse into sendsbr.c, and doing
 180   a complete MIME parsing.  Then all handling of Content encoding
 181   can be on the backend.
 182
 183 SLOCAL
 184 -----
 185 * Change slocal to use .slocalrc file, instead of .maildelivery?
 186 * Add ability to use regular expressions in header matching.
 187 * Add support for Berkeley db.
 188 * Clean up output from -debug option.
 189 * Add -debuglevel to control the amount of debug info that is output.
 190 * Add -debuglog to specify file to save debugging output.
 191 * Add -logfile (or -audit) to specify where to record info about successful
 192   deliveries.
 193
 194 VMH
 195 ---
 196 * Fix vmh (or remove it).  vmh seems to be using internal
 197   knowledge of curses.
 198
 199 MTA INTERFACE
 200 -------------
 201 * Fix locking code.  Add lockfile command.
 202 * Think about support for DSN (Delivery Status Notification)
 203 * Test nmh with qmail.  Add qmail's maildir format.
 204 * Relax restrictions on what can be done with headers in send/post.
 205 * figure out why smail.c and client.c need their own copies of
 206   getcpy, copyip, etc... (funny linking problem)
 207
 208 GENERAL
 209 -------
 210 * see if the various versions of copyfile and copyf can be
 211   merged.
 212 * change time functions to use POSIX functions by default.
 213 * Add MH-6.8.4 features into nmh (mostly done).
 214 * Maybe should move etcpath to sbr and add to libmh.
 215 * collect winsize, struct termio, etc... together into a ttyinfo
 216   structure.
 217 * change adios to take exit code argument.
 218 * use wait3 if not waitpid (maybe)
 219 * some of the calls to setjmp/longjmp should be replaced with
 220   sigsetjmp/siglongjmp.
 221 * When do we need to add -lresolv for SunOS 4.1.x?
 222 * replace use of ftell with fgetpos.