Github user sebbASF commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-ponymail/issues/314
Unlike logging events, emails don't always have an accurate timestamp.
The Date: header can contain completely erroneous information (v. #87 &
#122)
In the case of mailing-list messages, there will be other timestamps that
are more likely to be accurate, but are they consistent across different
sources?
Great care will need to be taken to ensure that a consistent scheme is used
to ensure that mails don't 'fall through the cracks'.
If the max number of docs in an index does depend on the doc size (where is
this documented?), then the mbox_source index will reach the limit well before
the mbox index. Because the mbox_source index is not used for searching, it
should be much simpler to implement a partitioning scheme for it.
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