Re: "Leave-on-disk" MIME parsing

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:10 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> I just committed "leave-on-disk" MIME parsing to Tinymail's camel-lite.
> 
> Mind that this is highly experimental code.
> 
> The two commits that should be combined to prepare the patch for
> upstream are:
> 
> http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/changeset/3462 and
> http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/changeset/3455
> 
> I added Matthew and Jeffrey in CC so that they can review this using
> those two diffs already.

Reviewing the diff myself I found two glitches:

http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/changeset/3463


> The net result of these patches is that opening a truly large E-mail
> will not consume the same amount of bytes as the size of the E-mail in
> RAM. In stead the MIME parser will use seek() in case the stream
> supports this.
> 
> We have been updating certain of Tinymail's streams to become seekable:
> 
> http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/changeset/3454
> 
> This was obviously related to all this.
> 
> 
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