Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Sam Steingold <sds goems com>]

>>>> In message <19990420224806.A21031@svarozic.srce.hr>
>>>> On the subject of "Re: Writing a GNOME mail client."
>>>> Sent on Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:48:06 +0200
>>>> Honorable Drazen Kacar <dave@srce.hr> writes:
 >> 
 >> 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.

What you are describing is called USENET. :-)

mail has the property that the user can edit a message in the mailbox.
how are you going to implement that?

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