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In message <9203100119.AA16881@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net wrote:
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> Quite right, which is why I prefer MH format.  The messages are
> kept separate and unmolested, with messages pointers, etc. stored
> elsewhere.  I'm tempted to make VM work this way, as this would
> simplify VM's internals significantly.  Maybe for version 6.

What about the editing/reordering/reformatting headers issue?  Does MH leave
the original headers unmolested in that case as well?  If so, go for it, dude!

I think an approach where there was a single file that contained only folder
information, with the messages themselves in seperate files, might make the
mail equivalent of meta-dot easier to implement as well (following references
that point to messages that are in different folders, that sort of thing.)

Have any of you had experience with IMAP?  My understanding is that it's
basically a database system for email, where the various clients retrieve
message bodies and cross-reference information by talking to a server, which
indexes them under their message-ids.  The concept of a "folder" isn't in the
database itself.

	-- Jamie