Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Drazen Kacar <dave srce hr>]

Sam Steingold wrote:

> 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?

By copying it from the system's spool to the user's mailbox when
the user requests editing operation. That's why it needs a bit of a
special treatment. It's just a plain old copy on write. :-)

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