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