against databases

[Stephen Washburn]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Caio Chassot wrote:

> On 2010-01-19, at 22:08 , Anthony Meadow wrote:
>>
>> One of the biggest problems with a database approach is import and  
>> export. Whatever the solution I think it's important that the  
>> migration path to Letters - as well as the migration path from  
>> Letters - should be easy. After ten years on Eudora 6.2.4 I'm  
>> finally trying out Thunderbird, Eudora 8 and Postbox (a commercial  
>> off-shoot of Thunderbird) and having to run gigabytes of mail  
>> through buggy converters is no fun. But the Thunderbird version of  
>> mbox is a defacto standard.
>
> We're not doing POP. Your emails are already on your IMAP account.
>
> There's no migration issue.

Unless you've moved the messages to a local folder from the IMAP  
account as a result of space restrictions on the account, right?

With that said I thought I had seen the suggestion that the mail  
itself be stored in mbox or maildir but to have a related database for  
additional features (can't find the message on the list right now).  I  
think the idea being that taking your mail into or out of Letters  
would then be easy, you'd just lose some special features when  
leaving... but if you left who cares? :-)

Stephen
stephen.washburn at mac.com