RE: Commit mailbox, good idea?

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight mindspring com>]

If somebody writes a nice CORBA backend that abstracts the entire concept
of mail storage and retrieval, then I'm sure we'll use it. :)  At that point,
abstracting the backend would be trivial.

I believe that there is already some work on a CORBA server for mail related tasks.


On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:14:37 Brady Hegberg wrote:
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> 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.
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