Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 13:21:52 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Sedore <cmsedore@mailbox.syr.edu> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Mail... Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950331131926.25138D-100000@forbin.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950401014023.1567A-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Brian Tao wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Mail really wants a record oriented file system, or as you suggest, one > > file system object per message. > > Precisely. Since we are all used to seeing hierarchical > filesystems, this model can be applied to a mail spool rather well. > Each individual user's mailbox is represented as a directory > structure, where the "inodes" make up the mailbox index. Each message > is represented as an individual file inside that directory. If you > want to get fancy, you can map each message to a subdirectory, with > the headers, message body and MIME attachments as files. Large > organizations could then build up trees of mail filesystems and > instruct mail readers to descend a hierarchy of directories the same > way you would trace from a top-level domain down to the invidiual host > and then to the user. Isn't this more or less what MH does at a user level? I've often thought that the MH model could be extended in many ways to do the above. -Chris
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