Yeah, maildirs seem pretty effective as a store. Thats actually what I was hinting at (with a link file instead of real links as this is a java program and will be running on platforms which don't support real links). I don't buy into the idea that creating multiple files will cause much more disk thrashing, as a spool file can be scattered all of over the drive too.
Agreed. Individual files per messages is much better than single files per folder (I would think).
Although, the open/close efficiency issue is real, BUT I think this can be counteracted with a good full-text index file. Also, thanks to the newer journaling file systems, it would be a lot easier to guarantee that a message is uncorrupted. Although, I definetely think the indexing system should be implemented after a simple maildir implementation is put into place.
I would recommend Lucene for the indexing. API is a bit goofy, but it's very fast, a Jakarta project, and I'm familiar with it if you have questions.
Anyways, this would just be a step to at least get this into something close to a beta phase. What do you guys think?
Sounds great to me. I believe the biggest hurdle was just the stores, and then we could at least start testing more widely.
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