Re: [Q] : about libmutt limits

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2002.03.04 10:07:34 +0000 Emmanuel wrote:

>> 
> OK, but is libmutt able to have several mailboxes opened at the same time : 
> ie you open the first one, populate an index with it, then open a new one 
> populate another index on it by the "search in window mechanism"... I mean 
> can libmutt handle that situation if we serialize the ops correctly?

just look at balsa with mailbox tabs enabled, each tab corresponds to an
open mailbox. what we do is save the relevant mutt context for each mailbox
and then set/save when we change mailbox. if you use libbalsa_mailbox
function you're fine cause they take care of the big mutt lock for you

you prolly don't want to launch n threads to search in n mailboxes anyway
as that is a fun way to to trash the cache :)
while(mailbox++)
   libbalsa_open_mailbox(mailbox)
   search_mailbox(mailbox)
   libbalsa_close_mailbox(mailbox)

would be a correct way to do it

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