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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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Subject: Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir)
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Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com> writes:

>     My question -- rather a curiosity -- is if one could easily
> implement an alternative message store instead of maildir. (I actuall
y
> have in mind a KV store like BerkeleyDB, or even a database like
> CouchDB...)

See 

    id:"1340657517-6539-6-git-send-email-ethan@betacantrips.com"

for one proposal. And yes, it touches quite a lot of code.

d