From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: pop3 usability thoughts
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:08:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230912-impart-swinger-4c2434@meerkat> (raw)
Hello:
I've been playing around with pop3, and I'm wondering if we can improve its
usability by adding a "last NNN messages" pseudo-folder. Currently, if someone
wants to access the git mailing list archive via pop3, they have to do the
following:
- know that the username should be $(uuidgen)@org.kernel.vger.git.1 (the
default username would access slice 0, right? Or is it the last 50,000
messages?)
- wait for their client to retrieve tens of thousands of unread messages on
first access
- if the remote archive rolls over to the next slice, they have to edit their
account info to get new messages (unless I'm wrong about #1)
Perhaps the default could be slightly different:
- $(uuidgen)@org.kernel.vger.git would start with an empty view (or something
like the last 10 messages)
- it would only get any new messages added to the archive
I think this would be a friendlier experience, but not sure how difficult it
would be to implement. I'm also not 100% sure all my assumptions are correct,
so please feel free to correct me.
Best wishes,
-K
next reply other threads:[~2023-09-12 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-12 21:08 Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2023-09-12 22:40 ` [RFC] pop3: support `?limit=$NUM' parameter in mailbox name Eric Wong
2023-09-13 6:20 ` Eric Wong
2023-09-13 15:33 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-13 22:03 ` Eric Wong
2023-09-15 19:17 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-13 16:08 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-14 0:38 ` Eric Wong
2023-09-15 20:03 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-15 20:41 ` Eric Wong
2023-09-18 13:46 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-18 21:14 ` Eric Wong
2023-09-19 21:28 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-22 2:18 ` [PATCH] pop3: support initial_limit " Eric Wong
2023-09-22 18:02 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2023-09-22 18:38 ` Eric Wong
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