kriso@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Kris Olander) (02/27/91)
Just thought I'd through this out and see what threads developed. :) --------- How difficult would it be to integrate a mechanism that would compress old mail messages after a certain time has expired, adding the necessary intelligence to Messages which would detect whether an old message was compressed and decompress the message on the fly if an attempt to view the message is made? First design constraint that comes to my mind would be the need for some type of index, or table of contents that would contain subject line -to- compressed message file relations. --------- My Main Motivation: ~/.MESSAGES is getting rather large and it's time to archive some of the info in my folders, but I know that once I do this I'll need to find some past mail message....oh well. -Kris