on 16/11/00 3:30 PM, Michael W. Wellman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The DDK for the "Apple Information Access Toolkit"
> <ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/AIAT_1.1.sit.hqx >
> seems to incorporate a goodly bit of this functionality. Although I note
> that the DDK is 2 1/2 years old. And, so far as I know, hardly anyone has
> adopted it.
>
>
> At first glance, there's a goodly amount of work necessary to get from there
> to what's required for an email client.
>
> For what it's worth, long ago, when we were wrestling with this problem, we
> decided that in the day and age of people sending annoying 1+ megabyte
> binary attachments, that it was perfectly reasonable to conceptually store
> both the original version and a pre-parsed version of an incoming textual
> message.
Thank you Michael,
Actually what I (and I think others) are wishing for is similar
functionality to what Cyberdog had in it's search facility. Searched over a
thousand emails in a few seconds, and returned the result ranked in order of
relevance. As I recall, it indexed the mailboxes during idle time, which
worked really well, but the system made deleting large numbers of messages
very slow as it updated the index during the delete.
How it's generated is beyond my present technical skill, but if
Apple produced a method to do it for you, it might save you a bit of work
and produce better functionality. And I wouldn't have a parallel Filemaker
database that a scheduled script has to update every evening.....
Peter
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