Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir)

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir)\r
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+Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+>     My question -- rather a curiosity -- is if one could easily\r
+> implement an alternative message store instead of maildir. (I actuall\r
+y\r
+> have in mind a KV store like BerkeleyDB, or even a database like\r
+> CouchDB...)\r
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+See \r
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+    id:"1340657517-6539-6-git-send-email-ethan@betacantrips.com"\r
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+for one proposal. And yes, it touches quite a lot of code.\r
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+d\r