On 1/24/05 6:38:45 PM, "Scott Haneda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But what could happen is there became a plugin so to speak for Entourage. I > am guessing here, but spotlight must have some database it looks all this > stuff up in. If every incoming and outgoing email also sent a copy of that > data into the spotlight database, then we could search on this. > > Of course, there would have to be a option to fully resync this as well. I > am thinking a 3rd party may even be able to pull this off, but it may be too > slow, at least on the initial sync, once you did that, applescripts could > probably send the data to spotlights database. > > The question is on message retrieval, can you link to a message outside > Entourage? I know each message gets a ID, but I am not sure how you would > click on a list of files in spotlight and get Entourage to track that > message down. > > I think it is possible, I am sure the devs are exploring something like > this, at least I hope. Technically, all Tiger development info is under NDA so there isn't much that can be said.... Given all of the publically mentioned information, there is no way to map database-like implementations (even mbox's) into the way that Spotlight was designed. Read the following article: http://paulfrankenstein.org/archives/2004/08/15_one_who_rides_a_tiger_will_f ind_it_hard_to_dismount.html "One of the interesting things about Spotlight is that it�s extremely focused on searching and finding files. In fact, in order to take full advantage of the new technology, the next version of Mail.app will change the way it stores mail messages. At the moment, Mail.app saves email using mbox format: each folder is saved as a file; individual messages are aggregated together inside each file. The version of Mail.app that will ship with 10.4 changes that: now, each email will be saved as a separate file. In other words, they�re letting the file system be the database." So not even Mail.app will use mbox format. If this is true, then Apple must be counting on the fact that the OS can handle hundreds of thousands, if not millions of files. That is a definite departure from the way that we have always been taught to treat the OS. Jud -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
