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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Serious Kmail memory problems (v1.0.29.1)
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-04-27 14:36:21
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Don, 27 Apr 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> > file format used to store and index mails. Specifically one would use a
> > btree based file format to store all the mails in then store index files
>
> The right way to do this is to use a real database anyway. No really, I
> like the idea but I don't want to implement it :-)
>
> The big disadvantage would be the dependence on another (big) software
> installed. Yes, I know we cannot change this easily anyway.

Otherwise, making the mail messages themselves unreadable from outside is a 
very bad idea, but I think this is obvious to everybody ;-)

The way that *is* possible is to store each mail in a separate file
(like mh or maildir) and have the index file be proprietary (read: kmail 
specific). The index file would then contain the btree.

We already have a kmail specific index file, so we can do with the index file
what we are pleased.

Kind regards,
Stefan

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