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Re: E-mail db

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On Monday, August 26, 2013 8:44:40 AM UTC-5, Rui Maciel wrote:
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> > If you were going to make an e-mail client like Thunderbird, what would be
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> Not exactly a data structure, but if you're going to store emails then the 
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> Maildir method is the obvious choice.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
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> That, along with a model-view-controller to implement any abstraction that 
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> you require for your UI, is by far the best way to go store emails.
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> Rui Maciel

Yeah, I used to use a format like that for a free e-mail service.

I remember the day when the service exceeded about 32767 users.  Nobody new could sign up because the ext2 filesystem seemed to have a limit of 32767 subdirectories of a dir.

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E-mail db bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-08-23 19:06 -0700
  Re: E-mail db Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2013-08-24 09:36 -0500
    Re: E-mail db bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2013-08-24 18:29 -0700
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  Re: E-mail db Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-08-26 14:44 +0100
    Re: E-mail db bob <bob@coolfone.net> - 2013-08-27 15:02 -0700
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