Oliver Kiddle <okiddle(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> writes:
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.
That would upset things, because mh /does/ change mail files. I
messages to stay in the same place (eg repl -annotate, which I
have as default behaviour for repl).
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.
That does have a certain appeal.
--
Jón Fairbairn
Jon(_dot_)Fairbairn(_at_)cl(_dot_)cam(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
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