Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Scott Wimer <scottw dev cgibuilder com>]

Drazen,

This requires hackery on the mail server itself usually, at least, that's
the easiest place to add it.  To provide this on the storage side would
be possible if the Message architecture we're working on here can be
flexible in how the Index refers to Message locations (/path/file, or
maybe URL).

Regards,
scottwimer
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Drazen Kacar wrote:

> Gleef wrote:
> 
> > MTA's generally use one of two different schemes to store their messages:
> >   * One file per folder, many messages per folder (Sendmail, Sendmail Pro)
> >   * One file per message, one directory per folder (QMail, Post.Office)
> > 
> > IMHO, any decent mail client should support both.  If we have to pick one
> > to start with, pick the one file per folder, since Sendmail is the most
> > popular MTA, particularly with Free systems.
> 
> That's nice, but there is one additional feature which is IMO worth
> adding. On a multiuser system it's quite possible that several users will
> receive mail from the same mailing list. With the current mail readers
> each one has to store copies locally. It would be nice if there was
> a central spool for the mailing lists, so each of them would have to
> have an index only (with status field for each message, since they
> would have read only access for them). This way there would be less
> storage space used, less DNLC and inode usage and a better overall
> performance.
> 
> The only way it can be done now is by using a local news server and turning
> mailing lists into local news groups. Since there are many news readers
> which can't use more than one news server in a single invocation,
> this is not a briliant solution.
> 
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