Hi Stefan, On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:59:43 +0200 UTC (1/18/2004, 5:59 AM -0600 UTC my time), Stefan Tanurkov wrote:
S> Well, there is an old idea and think it's now time to ask whether it's S> good or not (it's a question to ALL, that's why I broke the thread: S> what do you think about creating a spool directory for each account S> where the incoming messages are stored before they get into the S> message base? S> Having such a directory, it would be possible to put S> files in RFC-(2)822 format in there, so TB! will automatically take S> them as received, process with filters, etc... There are two schools of thought here that I can see. First on the negative side, spooling mail first in RFC2822, would probably require some type of mbox *nux format, where each email pointer would be on the From: or some such, I am assuming... <g> This has a negative effect in that you are handling incoming mail twice... once for the spool, once for the permanent message base in TB! format. Processing mail, in general, more than necessary is not a good thing, more things can go wrong, e.g. malformed headers being processed, etc... I have seen many mbox formated spools, from large message bases, corrupted. If this were to be done, some very heavy duty programming checks would have to be in place to avoid this, as not all MTAs are compliant, to include possible header rewrites/additons. You also then have to deal with increased, expensive CPU cycles and mail processing time. On the positive side, it would eliminate broken .tmp files, as the same spool file would be written each time. It would probably offer better/faster filtering capabilities and some backend mail safety features, although the POP3 protocol would still keep mail on the server during a broken POP3 transaction.. S> Take this as casting a vote :-) I vote for <g> -- Gary A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat. ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.03 Beta/40 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
