Re: [Nmh-workers] A useless but interesting exercise: Design MH from scratch in the 2014 context

[Ken Hornstein]

>Just because you can use a lot of disk space doesn't mean you should.  If
>you use a database backend for indexing the messages you detect and avoid
>duplicate copies of attachments.  The actual pieces of the message could
>still exist in directories with duplicate copies linked in.  Attachments,
>and copies of attachments, are the main source of disk usage in my mail
>folders.

I dunno; to me, databases are fine for specialized things, but just add
a level of complexity that I don't necessarily think is useful.  Also,
I'm not sure of the savings; maybe it's just me, but I rarely get identical
copies of the same message or attachment.

>You could go even further and use FUSE to present a legacy interface.
> While maintaining a backend in another format, even on an IMAP server.

Ow, FUSE?  Say goodbye to portability.

--Ken