Re: [fetchmail-users] "requires envelope option!"

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

[catching up on email from my vacation...]

Rob MacGregor wrote on Aug 28, 2007:
>   Of course, there may be some value in
> moving to a new format (and providing a tool to migrate) to enforce a
> more logical configuration format.

Heh, I've long disliked the config file format and its implicit structure, 
and long long ago I suggested to ESR that it be changed.  His response 
then was that it was already too established to change and he didn't want 
to have two parsers (for backward compatibility).  Of course he also 
thought his optional English "noise words" thing was a feature rather 
than a bug of the format.

I still think it would be nice to revamp it into some more logical and 
explicitly-structured format in some future major version, but I 
obviously don't have time to work on it.

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