Re: balsa update

[Bojan <landb mail net>]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Laurent CREPET wrote:

> > get 25-30 new mails within 1-2 hrs and you dont know what kinda emails
> > came in and where balsa split them up. means you need to search half day
> > to see in which folder balsa put them in. these flags that show how many
> > new mails and old mails remain in the folders doesnt help much because
> > [snip]

> If mailbox indexes bring some advantages and performance, it can be
> interesting. But if the must be stored on files, the mail reader should be

Why not take a peak at how Evolution does it?  They use standard mailbox
files, and update the status flags in a standard way, but provide a visual
overview of what mailboxes have how many messages in them..  Works just
great.  And when reading the same boxes from pine/mutt, it works just the
same, too...