On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:45:32PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 04:47:20PM -0800: > > Well, use Message-IDs to identify the message. Have some logic that > trawls through an archive directory or directories to locate contents > of said message. >
Message-IDs you say. OK. A place to start. > Then start caching where such a message was "last seen", and when; the > user can then have a ready mechanism to "purge" the database of stale > information, or not, if they archive everything off on to CDs once a > year or so. > Something has to go from "I saw it here" to "here it is." > > Maybe this would have to be specific to one MUA in order to be intimate > > enough to know when those operations are taking place. > > Make it work with MailDir & MBox to start... An MUA that doesn't support > or use one or the other isn't interested in playing nice with anyone else > *anyway*, and so removes itself from consideration. That would be the plan. Maybe a reindex function to occasionally ... you know, _reindex_. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
