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Re: E-mail db

From Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: E-mail db
Date 2013-08-26 14:44 +0100
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bob wrote:

> If you were going to make an e-mail client like Thunderbird, what would be
> the most sensible data structure to store the messages in on the hard
> drive?

Not exactly a data structure, but if you're going to store emails then the 
Maildir method is the obvious choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir


That, along with a model-view-controller to implement any abstraction that 
you require for your UI, is by far the best way to go store emails.


Rui Maciel

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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
  Re: E-mail db Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-08-24 18:28 +0100
  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
      Re: E-mail db Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 12:25 +0100
        Re: E-mail db bob <bob@coolfone.net> - 2013-09-04 00:32 -0700

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