mboxgrep/TODO.md

The TODO list for mboxgrep

Behavior

• use cryptographic hashes for detecting duplicate messages
• add checking for conflicting command-line options
• support for deletion of messages after being matched and displayed
• ignore .overview when grepping Gnus folders
• inverted matching
• recursive search through directories
• writing selected messages to a new folder
• deleting selected messages
• basic time and date matching
• more advanced time and date matching, with strings such as "yesterday"
• reading messages from standard input
• run-time selection of file locking method
• add a debug function

File formats, encodings and standards

• migrate to pcre2, as pcre is obsolete
• use a more modern hash function than MD5
• MIME support
• support for GnuPG
• support for compressed mbox folders
• support for bzip2 compression
• support for XZ-format compression
• support for mail folder conversion
• improve error detection when a directory is not a Maildir or MH folder
• document criteria for folder format detection

Miscellaneous

• write Texinfo documentation
• configuration files
• make use of lockfile library
• make use of Solaris' maillock library
• provide possibility to use flock() instead of fcntl()
• provide national language support with gettext()