RE: Commit mailbox, good idea?

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh bitstream net>]

1.  I like this idea.  Items should be marked as deleted somewhere on the 
harddrive so they don't suddenly reappear if the program crashes or is killed.

2.  Would it be interesting to have a plug-in type of structure for saving 
email messages?  That is, if someone had a lot of email they could use 
mySQL to store the messages instead of flat-files.  Essentially it would be 
a matter of specifying the lib that would be used to store/delete/save/move 
etc email messages and someone could choose to replace the default with the 
mySQL or Oracle or ODBC or whatever version fit their needs.  This would 
also modularize the program further which is usually good for this type of 
project.


>> >
>> > Imagine a mailbox that has, say, 5000 1k-10k messages in it.
>> >
>
>> How many 'normal' users have such mailboxes?
>
>Enough to make the point relevant (i.e. me ;->)
>
>> > Now, imagine if, each time you hit delete, it has to write that 5Mb-50Mb
>> > mailbox back to disk without the little 10k slice from the middle
>somewhere.
>> >
>> > On the other hand, with commit, you can delete as many as you like, and
>then
>> > they all get wiped at once.
>>
>> I'd say that auto-committing would be good on exit or on a configurable
>> periodic basis, though.
>
>Okay, when we delete a message (from the users point of view) could we not
>simply flag it as deleted in the file (or add another file that references
>deleted messages) and move it to the trashcan folder (GUI) then allow a
>delete/commit option on the trashcan folder? This seems a little more
>natural to use.
>
>> > How 'bout a option on how to do this, delete when deleted or delete
>> > on commit, with the above ideas used as well. And of course a good
>> > kbd shortcut to commit (like elm's $).
>
>> My rationale is, that most users probably don't have such mailboxes and
>> are probably baffled if they need to separately delete the messages. I
>know
>> my wife would be baffled by something like that ;)
>
>I wouldn't blame her for being baffled !
>
>> ramin
>
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