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28 From: Stewart Smith <stewart@flamingspork.com>
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29 To: Ethan Glasser-Camp <glasse@cs.rpi.edu>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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30 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/13] Modular message store code
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53 On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:01:53 -0500, Ethan Glasser-Camp <glasse@cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
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54 > I'm submitting as RFC this patch series, which introduces the idea of
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55 > a "mailstore", a "class" that defines how to access mail, instead of
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56 > currently assuming it's always some Maildir-ish hierarchy that
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57 > contains a bunch of mail.
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59 This is really awesome.
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61 Quite a while ago now I did some experiments on storing my entire
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62 Maildir inside git packs instead of in maildir. This produced an
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63 *amazing* saving in disk space used. My idea is to end up with Maildir
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64 for "current" (as everything delivers into Maildir without a problem)
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65 and then on a (say) monthly basis, packing all mail into an archive file
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66 and have notmuch be able to still read it.
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68 you know what... this patch set has re-ignited my interest in making
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