Would be nice if copying a message from one mailbox to another
wouldn't require actually reading+writing the whole message
contents. But I can't really figure out how to implement this
without requiring that there is only a single dbox storage which
contains the mails for all the mailboxes, and the mailboxes
themselves are just Dovecot's index files containing pointers to
the dbox storage.
The problem with having everything in one storage is that if the
index files are broken, the messages can't be placed into correct
mailboxes anymore.
Although one possibility would be treat mailboxes a bit similarly
than keywords. So that when a message is copied to another mailbox,
the message in dbox file is updated to contain information that it
exists in such and such mailboxes. Hmm. Perhaps that would be good
enough, yes.
Yes, I think treating mailboxes similary to keywords is ideal. There
really is no reason to physically separate mailboxes on disk. All
that is needed is this logical separation if it can be done in a
reliable way.
Or maybe track this in mailbox-specific index files, and also have a
corespodning text file that stores a list of messages that are
contained in that mailbox... similar to maildir's dovecot-uidlist
file. Then if you lose the index you can rebuild the index from the
text file.
This sounds suspiciously like 'virtual folders', that are supported by
both Evolution and Thunderbird... how do they do it?
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Best regards,
Charles
- Re: [Dovecot] dbox redesign Charles Marcus
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