Jeff Hayward writes:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> One way to do that would be for Dan to change the
> Maildir specification so that a Maildir may have multiple "cur"
> directories. Then, keep a CDB containing a subset of the message
> headers.
>
> Why multiple "cur" directories?
Avoid large subdirectory filesystem lossage.
> I'm also presuming that the CDB will be indexed by something like the
> message file name. How efficient are things like string searches going to
> be in that case? My dream states include things like results of previous
> searches being cached (I have several large folders that I search on the
> same subset of strings frequently). How would you do that with a CDB?
If you're storing mail on a server, I don't see *any* alternative to
server-side searching. Not that I know how best to implement it.
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