Reformatted excerpts from Jon Dugan's message of 2009-04-22: > Most services on Plan 9 are implemented as synthetic file systems. > The synthetic filesystem that represents email on Plan 9 is known as > upas. upas provides a filesytem view of mail boxes regardless of > their backend storage medium (eg, POP, IMAP, etc) which provides a > nice clean separation between the code that you use to do useful > things to your mail and the code that deals with the mail store > itself.
Very interesting and that's a great abstraction. Definitely lots of overlap with STS. I suspect the primary differences will be that STS uses fielded, full-text search as its primary access mechanism, and there's no notion of any kind of filesystem-like mailbox or directory hierarchy. -- William <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
