> most MUA's will only handle mailboxes so big with
> acceptable performance: they have to open each message file and
> extract various header information. A clever MUA could maintain that
> information separately, but none that I'm aware of actually do.

I think the Cyrus IMAP server falls into this category. It keeps a "meta file" 
of header data for IMAP header calls...

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Jason Haar

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