Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:30 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 13:19 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 04:10 -0500, darren ontrenet com wrote:
> > > Huh?
> > > Many people don't leave their messages on ISP servers because of quotas,
> > Get a better ISP.
> > > so then they get downloaded to their local machine. Where you want fast,
> > > reliable access to them (e.g. searching, sorting, etc.) Unfortunately,
> > > without ACID principles, your local email will get corrupted. And most
> > > don't want that.
> > > Because database technology (embedded or otherwise), use things called
> > > 'transactions' it protects the data. If you brew your own 'local storage
> > > system' like Evolution, you have what we have now which is unreliable and
> > > slow.
> > My turn to say "Huh?".
> > In what way has Evo "brewed" it's own storage system?  It uses standard
> > MBOX files on top of the native filesystem.  That's about as standard as
> > it gets.  
>
> I say - "Heh?". ;)  
>
> Because I come down on the other side;  the app might be better off if
> they "brewed" their own storage format [like Cyrus IMAP did]

Have you looked at what type of files are in a Cyrus folder ?
They look like bog-standard mails to me, except attachments are split.

        Xav