against databases

[Brent Simmons]

On Jan 16, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Gus Mueller wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Nathaniel Irons wrote:
> 
>> Speaking of cantankerous gentlemen who go by their initials, I'm inclined
>> to think that Mail's scaling success with .emlx proves the viability of
>> djb's maildir on HFS+: http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> 
> I think using maildir would be good as well, combined with using a sqlite database for summary info (which could be rebuilt, based on the maildir files).  It would make backing up your email store a whole lot easier too- a single DB would change all the time, but individual files, not so much.  Plus, there are other apps which can read / write maildir that we could import from (mutt!).

Licensing issues will have to be considered, of course -- but I would definitely want to build on existing code as much as possible. No reason to solve stuff from scratch when we don't have to.

Just say NO to Not Invented Here Syndrome.

-Brent