Re: [Gzz-commits] gzz/doc/pegboard/email_storage--marc peg.rst

[Marc Schiereck]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:06:38AM +0100, Benja Fallenstein wrote:

> >+We nedd a system for saving emails in Storm. (especially 
> >+for the planned email-client.) 
> >
> 
> What else? I think a reader would want to know this ;-)

What exactly do you mean? More reasons to store emails in Storm-Pools?

> >A way to do this is to put
> >+all existent headers in one block and to put all bodies 
> >+in distinctive blocks, as said in ``Issues`` und described
> >+further later on.
> >
> 
> That's saying that *all* headers (of *all* emails) are put into the same 
> block-- nonsense :)

true *g*

> s/distinctive/distinct/, or maybe better even "different"

It's always so hard to make a decision :8)

> >+The reason for putting the the bodies in separate blocks is
> >+that their content has xanalogical IDs, 
> >
> 
> It would have xanalogical IDs if we put it in the same block, too. The 
> point is simply that if we receive the same message with the same body 
> twice, but with different headers, the body should only be stored once, 
> and links to and transclusions of it should only use a single 
> xanalogical ID, so that links to one copy of the body will also be to 
> the other copy of the body.

ok. I shouldn't have shorten it so much.

> >+And it should be possible to fetch emails on different 
> >+computers and to synchronize the Storm-Pool.
> >
> 
> Can you explain *why* this is made possible, or is that too hard?

At the moment I'm unsure, I'll ask you tomorrow (today :8) if I have 
a question. Is what you wrote in the other mail an (at least partly)
explanation why this is made possible?