[Dovecot] dbox redesign

[Gunter Ohrner]

Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007 schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> > Yes, I think treating mailboxes similary to keywords is ideal.  There
> Except if you want to handle some mailboxes in a special way it's
> easier if they're separated on disk. Such as renaming or deleting
> mailboxes is a lot easier.They're based on filtering rules. I don't 
think they support "copying"
messages. So the virtual folders are easily rebuilt by just re-applying
the filters into all the messages.

Not neccessarily if you add one level of indirection, simply numbering the 
mailboxes by index numbers internally and providing a number/name mapping 
somewhere. This way, a mailbox can be renamed easily simply by updating 
the map, and might by deleted by removing the map entry. Stale index 
number may be left in the messages and might cleaned up the next time a 
message's folder list is updated or messages are expunged.

Greetings,

  Gunter

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