> > It occurred to me today > > that if we were MIME parsing at delivery time, we could also store the mime > > structure of a message in the database. An IMAP BODY.PEEK for mime > > structures > > would be nearly instantaneous. This is probably the single most common > > request > > from an email client, especially web-based ones that need to refresh their > > message list on almost every page hit. > > This can be very interesting to do. Of course, we still need to store > the message in its original format, but to store some information on > mime-parts would be very benificial for performance.
This would/could be another application for making a more generic per-message data cache, rather than solely for message headers. -- Jesse Norell [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not my email address; change "administrator" to my first name. --
