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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: More dreams: one message one file?
Message-ID: <7127@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 17:44:09 GMT
References: <349@icjapan.uucp> <3256@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: schaefer@ogicse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <3256@taux01.UUCP> crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
} Would it be *extremely* difficult to make mush recognise a
} different folder structure: instead of a folder which is a
} text file containing many messages, the folder will be a
} directory in which each message resides in a seperate file.

It would not be "*extremely*" difficult to get mush to *read* that kind
of folder structure, but it would be *somewhat* difficult to get mush to
*write* that kind of folder structure.

} BTW, are there mailers around which already work like this?

Sigh.  Yes, MH stores messages in a mildly indecipherable directory
hierarchy reminiscent of the hierarchy used by the news system.  I don't
know if there are any MH commands that will create links to put the same
message in multiple mailboxes, though, and heaven help you if you have
to go looking through that directory structure without MH to guide you.

Nevertheless, we eventually plan to teach Mush to understand it ....
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "February.  The hangnail on the big toe of the year."
                                                                    -- Duffy

schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)