RE: What is a VFolder? (Re: [Evolution] help - Ive just deleted all mymail for some strange reason?)

[Christopher James Lahey <clahey ximian com>]

On 22 Apr 2001 14:51:11 +0200, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> > VFolders are search queries. They're not folders, and nothing gets moved
> > into them, because they're, by definition, 'virtual'.
>
> How do you achieve it with acceptable performance? Do you use some db?

Sort of.  We keep a standard mbox file with a summary file and an index file.  Even though the actual 
messages are stored in a standard unix file format, there are database-like files sitting along side the mbox 
file.

Thanks,
    Chris