KT Walrus <kevin@my.walr.us> writes:

Just looking for any advice? I kind of like the idea of modeling my mail service after the US Post Office where the mailman delivers new mail once a day rather than like Twitter/Facebook where messages are posted in real time to encourage users to monitor their boxes throughout the day.

You've rediscovered digesting, which many mailing list (including this one), will batch up messages and periodically send them as one large message (using MIME multipart or some other combination technique). The only difference is that your doing it at the receiving end.

I wouldn't recommend it for all mail, but it could be useful to aggregate high-volume low-priority mail into managable chunks. There are many ways you could accomplish it, but the most straightforward way is to deliver new mail to sideline mailbox, and have a cron script deliver them to the user's INBOX (possibly digesting them into one message).

Joseph Tam <jtam.home@gmail.com>