Hi again,
I have been thinking more of how people store mail on the server.
I have another space saving idea.
I beleive many people file their sent mail somewhere, I know I file it
on the server in a folder named sent. Mozilla mail copies the mail with
imap to the sent mail folder.
Now there are two identical messageblock data on the server (if the mail
was internal). One that belong to the recipient(s) and one that belongs
to the sender.
Still thinking of splitting the messageblks in two pieces
If we added a checksum record to the messageblks table we could easily
find duplicate blocks and replace them.
I was thinking of some kind low priority process that operates on the
database when it is not that busy, which calculates a checksum and
removes duplicate message data.
But there is still the question is it worth the effort?
I beleive that making the database layout change and corresponding code
changes to make it possible to share message data between users is not
that difficult. You will still get 1000 copies of the same message sent
to 1000 users.
Doing the actual storing of only one message block is a much bigger
change, that could be done in a later release.
/Magnus
Eelco van Beek - IC&S wrote:
Hi all,
Roel is currently planning the implementation of public folders as next
big thing. This will indeed require changes to the original dbmail
database layout. We'll keep you all informed!
Eelco
On maandag, maa 31, 2003, at 21:16 Europe/Amsterdam, Jeff Brenton wrote:
Hello Blake,
BM> After reading the kind of internal changes required to make this
BM> work, one thing does come to mind. It sounds like public folders
BM> would solve this problem.
If the attempt to replace Exchange Server is truly serious, public
folders must be implemented in some form. Some organizations LIVE by
their public folders, which prevents them from even considering
non-Microsoft solutions.
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