On Feb 19, 2014, at 8:22 AM, norm(_at_)dad(_dot_)org wrote:
Suppose, you weren't designing a system to run on a time shared PDF 1145, but on a single user, multi-core system. Suppose that you had multi gigabyte disks available.
MH is not resource constrained by CPU, or memory for that matter, so I would change nothing. As for disk space, how much you use is a function of the types of email you receive and how much of a pack rat you are. This is not a function of your MUA. (Well, it might be, indirectly. If you are forced to use an MUA that really really sucks, odds are you won't be saving many messages.)
But also suppose you had to worry about distributed data and processing.
This I don't understand. How would reading/storing/replying/searching e-mail require distributed processing? And what do you mean by distributed data? You can already store your Mail hierarchy on (say) NFS mounted filesystems. Are you talking about supporting multiple storage back-ends (i.e. IMAP)? I'm not convinced this would work. You are always going to run into back ends that don't support some part of the required semantics (think message annotations with IMAP), so ultimately you end up crippling MH's functionality. If I was going to do it all over again, most of the changes I would make would be to streamline the commands and their interfaces to make them a bit more amenable to scripted processing of the messages. It would also have the hindsight of MIME not being an add-on. Perhaps the most intrusive change I would inflict would be to make the whole environment UTF-8 from end-to-end. --lyndon
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