3 Jun
2008
3 Jun
'08
5:49 a.m.
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:11 +0100, Ed W wrote:
Actually the motivation for this was I was wondering about the benefit of a storage backend where the body was stored per file and the headers were stored separately (perhaps in a maildir type format). I haven't looked to see if this is what dbox does already...
dbox is half-designed to support this. It supports arbitrary metadata (unlike maildir) and I've already written 3 lines of code to get this implemented ;)
/* Pointer to external message data. Format is:
1*(<start offset> <byte count> <ref>) */
DBOX_METADATA_EXT_REF = 'X',There's no code to actually read/write such metadata though. Also I'm not exactly sure what the <ref> is. Maybe just a filename used to store the data.