The main area is the actual storage method for emails. Would people preferI don't like the idea of a single file. Take a look at Microsoft's email program - there have been many problems with the single file once it gets too large. Things slow down, corruption is possible, and trying to extract and save individual emails gets 'interesting'.
a single file holding all emails, individual files for each email, which
would be indexed on startup, or individual files plus a maintained index?
Someone else mentioned the QL file limitations per directory. This could become a problem for someone who gets a lot of emails. You might want to break it into weekly directories with individual emails or something like that. If too many emails happened (what is the file limit?) then your software could create additional directories for that particular week. Of course, an index is the only way to handle the speed.
Also, are you aiming this at all users including floppy and microdrive types? If so, what happens if a user fills up a floppy, etc (for some of us, this is a real possibility).
Just some thoughts...
Jim Hunkins
