Re: [imap5] Feature set? - was Re: Designing a new replacement protocol for IMAP

[Adrien de Croy <[e-mail]>]

presuming you were storing the message in a file on disk, you could 
adopt some sort of meta structure, where the message was a part, and 
envelopes became other parts (and annotations if desired).  This could 
be as simple as putting a length at the start of the message to where 
the envelopes start.  Any sort of structure I'd length-prefix, so you 
can skip data instead of having to scan it.

the server would take care of it all, and clients would just fetch the 
bits they wanted.  Being in a single file would solve issues relating to 
synchronisation / keeping it all together.


On 21/02/2012 3:46 a.m., Bron Gondwana wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, at 02:43 PM, Dave Cridland wrote:
>> On Mon Feb 20 14:35:35 2012, Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>> It probably means storing annotations - or at least providing a way
>>> to access this envelope data that smells remarkably like
>>> annotations.
>> No.
>>
>> Store it as a properly modelled transport envelope - no need to turn
>> it into magic soup - that's never worked.
> Fine with me.  It's just yet another axis of data tied to a message, and
> it needs its very own "keywords" or "annotations" as well, presumably, if
> you want to note when it was accepted, or MDNed.
>
> Bron.

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