On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:32:06PM +0100, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > PS: And yes, I know it's been mentioned before, but the perfect mailbox > format has yet to be discovered. For example, one that allows snappy > access even with 300000 messages, one that allows setting of flags > without race conditions (such as the renaming in Maildir, which is > very inefficient with big mailboxes with many accessors, such as a > shared mailing list), one that allows moving, adding and deleting > messages fast, and in a crash-safe way. One that deals with modern > principles such as indexing, shared mailboxes and high concurrency. > That would be something. :)
Sounds a lot like an indexed SQL server.. Does anyone on the list have experience from mail stored e.g. in MySQL? //Peter
