Re: GNOME Message Managment System (Storage mechanism)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Since IMAP works on the principle of storing the mail on the server, and
the ideas have been to have message <-> folder association be one to many,
it may be necessary to use a modified IMAP server that can handle the new
mailbox format.

This is the drawback of creating a new mail storage format, but if
implemented correctly it would be very flexible.  I have not looked at an
IMAP protocol specification, so don't know what is possible with it, but
it may be necessary to add an extension to add a message to another folder
without removing its other associations (unless there is a message copy
function that could be used to give this functionality).  It would be good
if the modified IMAP server would be standard.

James Henstridge.

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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Alexander Peuchert wrote:

> Hi, (see below)
> 
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Scott Wimer wrote:
> 
> > The end result is a storage system that looks like this:
> > 
> > ~/Message/Base/Group1.db
> > ~/Message/Base/GroupN.db
> > ~/Message/Base/Store/[0-9]
> > ~/Message/Base/Store/[0-9]/924436539-j3902mdnijH
> > ~/Message/Base/Store/[0-9]/924432923-02df23ds93j
> > ~/Message/Base/Store/[0-9]/924433610-923oiUIHli8
> 
> What if I want to access my mail from a place where I can't connect to my
> home-directory ??? ( Firewall, ...)
> 
> Why shouldn't we use IMAP and it's remote mail reading and generate only a
> local index of all mails ... ?
> 
> alex
> 
> > 
> > Comments?
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