Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Michael Lausch <mla gams co at>]

>>>>> "sw" == Scott Wimer <scottw@dev.cgibuilder.com>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:45:55 -0700 (PDT)

sw> Matthias,
sw> The problem with the file system approach is that it only will cover 
sw> a simple model of the end user environment.  Granted, it would also
sw> be potentially easier to implement.  However, I fear that the time
sw> spent implementing it would endup being tossed because the model just
sw> doesn't fit a wide enough range of environments.

And it already exists. MH uses one file for one message and directories as it's 
folders. The whole mail system consists of unix programs which are
combinable via pipes or parameter substitution.
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