Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Drazen Kacar <dave srce hr>]

Matthias Warkus wrote:
> +++ Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 10:57:18AM -0700 +++
> Scott Wimer e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.

> > Each message stored is given a unique ID.
> 
> A file name?

If it doesn't open a security hole. File names used as keys tend to do
that.

> > Each Message may be tagged as belonging to any number of subject areas.
> 
> That is, hardlinked into a number of directories?

Unless I want to share data with a user whose home directory is on
another partition.

> > An index of each subject areas will be maintained on the fly.
> 
> Directory listings?

Which can hardly be called an index. An unsorted list, perhaps.

> > Standard dB tools
> 
> Such as a Unix filesystem?

Unless I have data on multiple machines.

> > Am I just whizzing in the dark here?  Or does this sound like a decent 
> > aproach to this problem?
> 
> It sounds like there is no need to invent a complete database system
> here; the filesystem plus some metadata is good enough.

For a small and limitted universe, such as one user on one host.

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