From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-11-10T16:14:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla?

James Britt wrote:
> 
> I'm reluctant to experiment too much to soon, for fear of losing mail.
> 

As am I.

> Is this for a machine that does not currently have a mail server 
> running?  Or are you  looking to pull mail down to your local machine, 
> processes it, and then pass it to Mozilla?

Right, my local box doesn't have a mail server (at least not that I use).
My pop server is on my web provider's box.

> I wonder if you can just write the mail to the mail files directly?
> 
> Or run a local "mail" proxy so that Mozilla thinks it is fetching mail, 
> but is really just getting passed files from disk.

Whatever's easier.

If you have further thoughts, let me know...


Thanks,
Hal