Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Dec 2006 21:05 UTC
"The Thunderbird email client doesn't get half the attention that its big brother, the Firefox browser, gets, but the Mozilla Foundation has finally gotten around to lavishing some love on it, and the first beta of version 2 is now out. If you think there's nothing more that can added to an email client - except for the fabled seek-out-and-destroy-spam option - prepare to be pleasantly surprised. The new Thunderbird comes with numerous new features."
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RE[2]: Here's to Email as a DB!
by edwdig on Sun 17th Dec 2006 05:00
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And the file can be indexed. Why such a solution isn't implemented yet is obscure to me. Thunderbird can read EML-files so why not just save the mails as such, instead of using the errorprone mbox-format?
You can do that, and in fact some unix (server/client) software uses formats like that, but it's several orders of magnitude slower to do it that way. Finding a file in the filesystem is a lot slower than finding the data you need in an already opened file.
I think ReiserFS is designed to change that, but I don't know how much of a difference it makes.
RE[3]: Here's to Email as a DB!
by dylansmrjones on Sun 17th Dec 2006 15:00
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Do as usual. Save each mail as a file. A .EML-file is nothing but the raw pop3-mail saved as a file with the .EML-extension.
And the file can be indexed. Why such a solution isn't implemented yet is obscure to me. Thunderbird can read EML-files so why not just save the mails as such, instead of using the errorprone mbox-format?