against databases

[Caio Chassot]

On 2010-01-19, at 22:27 , Stephen Washburn wrote:
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> Unless you've moved the messages to a local folder from the IMAP account as a result of space restrictions on the account, right?

I don't know, I'm on Skynet^H^H^HGmail OH LOOK INFINITE STORAGE. :P

> 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? :-)

There will be an API for reading and writing messages to Letters.

It's only a matter of writing the mbox/maildir side of the script then.

These formats are dead simple. I think there's enough demand for this import/export that once the API is minimally stable, it'll show up soon enough.