crehta@tasu74.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani) (02/05/90)
Would it be *extremely* difficult to make mush recognise a different folder structure: instead of a folder which is a text file containing many messages, the folder will be a directory in which each message resides in a seperate file. I am currently dealing with the problem of reducing multiple storage of messages; a mailer which recognises the folder format of one-directory-one-folder one-message-one-file, will enable a scheme using hard links, in which a message which seems to be in many different folders (of different users even) can still reside only once on disk. BTW, are there mailers around which already work like this? -- Ran ----------------------------------------------- Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) Disclaimer: The above is to be attributed to me only, not to any organization. Apology: Bad English. E-mailed spelling and style corrections are welcome.
schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (02/06/90)
In article <3256@taux01.UUCP> crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes: } Would it be *extremely* difficult to make mush recognise a } different folder structure: instead of a folder which is a } text file containing many messages, the folder will be a } directory in which each message resides in a seperate file. It would not be "*extremely*" difficult to get mush to *read* that kind of folder structure, but it would be *somewhat* difficult to get mush to *write* that kind of folder structure. } BTW, are there mailers around which already work like this? Sigh. Yes, MH stores messages in a mildly indecipherable directory hierarchy reminiscent of the hierarchy used by the news system. I don't know if there are any MH commands that will create links to put the same message in multiple mailboxes, though, and heaven help you if you have to go looking through that directory structure without MH to guide you. Nevertheless, we eventually plan to teach Mush to understand it .... -- Bart Schaefer "February. The hangnail on the big toe of the year." -- Duffy schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)