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@@ -13,19 +13,13 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 * support remapping of expired URLs similar to mailmap
   (coordinate with git.git with this?)
 
-* POP3 server, since some webmail providers support external POP3:
-  https://public-inbox.org/meta/20160411034104.GA7817@dcvr.yhbt.net/
-  Perhaps make this depend solely the NNTP server and work as a proxy.
-  Meaning users can run this without needing a full copy of the
-  archives in git repositories.
-
-* HTTP, IMAP and NNTP proxy support.  Allow us to be a frontend for
+* HTTP, IMAP, NNTP, POP3 proxy support.  Allow us to be a frontend for
   firewalled off (or Tor-exclusive) instances.  The use case is
   for offering a publicly accessible IP with a cheap VPS,
   yet storing large amounts of data on computers without a
   public IP behind a home Internet connection.
 
-* support HTTP(S) CONNECT proxying to NNTP for users with
+* support HTTP(S) CONNECT proxying to IMAP/NNTP/POP3 for users with
   firewall problems
 
 * DHT (distributed hash table) for mapping Message-IDs to various
@@ -44,9 +38,6 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 * Support more of RFC 3977 (NNTP)
   Is there anything left for read-only support?
 
-* Combined "super server" for NNTP/HTTP/POP3/IMAP to reduce memory,
-  process, and FD overhead
-
 * Configurable linkification for per-inbox shorthands:
   "$gmane/123456" could be configured to expand to the
   appropriate link pointing to the gmane.io list archives,
@@ -120,6 +111,13 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 * improve performance and avoid head-of-line blocking on slow storage
   (done for most git blob retrievals, Xapian needs work)
 
+* allow optional use of separate Xapian worker process to implement
+  timeouts and avoid head-of-line blocking problems.  Consider
+  just-ahead-of-time builds to take advantage of custom date parsers
+  (approxidate) and other features not available to Perl bindings.
+
+* integrate git approxidate parsing into Xapian w/o spawning git
+
 * HTTP(S) search API (likely JMAP, but GraphQL could be an option)
   It should support git-specific prefixes (dfpre:, dfpost:, dfn:, etc)
   as extensions.  If JMAP, it should have HTTP(S) analogues to
@@ -137,9 +135,6 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 * make "git cat-file --batch" detect unlinked packfiles so we don't
   have to restart processes (very long-term)
 
-* support searching based on `git-patch-id --stable` to improve
-  bidirectional mapping of commits <=> emails
-
 * linter to check validity of config file
 
 * linter option and WWW endpoint to graph relationships and flows
@@ -156,8 +151,10 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 
 * support UUCP addresses for legacy archives
 
-* decode (skip indexing of) base-85 binary patches to avoid false-positives
-
 * support pipelining as an IMAP/NNTP client for -watch + lei
 
-* auto-detect and reload on TLS cert+key changes in daemons
+* expose lei contents via read/write IMAP/JMAP server for personal use
+
+* git SHA-256 migration/coexistence path
+
+* decode RFC 3676 format=flowed + DelSp properly (see mflow (mblaze), mutt, ...)