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On 02/11/07 23:50, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +0000, Virgo Pärna wrote:
>> I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word
>> "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt).
>
> You mean the people who are oblivious to the fact that compact, as you
> described it, has been in that usage for decades when referring to databases
> and your IMAP mail store is a database? Ooooh, chilling, innit?
IMAP is an Access Protocol. It does not specify how the stores
imapd stores the data. uw-imapd uses mbox files.
Still, courier-imapd and dovecot use Maildir, so lets take that:
to call Maildir a database is stretching beyond reasonableness the
definition of "database".
- From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
database
1. <database> One or more large structured sets of persistent
data, usually associated with software to update and {query}
the data. A simple database might be a single file containing
many {records}, each of which contains the same set of
{fields} where each field is a certain fixed width.
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