Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Long ago, before mh I used an email system that stored email in
files with unique ids, which suggests a way to do this. Switch
to storing messages in (say) date-named accession order folders
with unique filenames (derived from the message-id, or simply
accession numbers) while the mh folders would contain symlinks
to these with numeric names as now. So (to continue the example)
sortm would not rename any message files, but just rearrange the
symlinks.
If you're going to do that, you might aswell name the files using an
SHA hash. It's not like mail files change often. The idea makes me
wonder if git could be used as a mailstore. With a blob for each message
and tag-blobs for classifying messages. Could be nice if you can push
and pull mail between machines.
Oliver
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