[Email-SIG] Design Thoughts Summary

[Bill Janssen]

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> 
> > I hope that it would be possible to make the storage container backend Storage Technology independent so that people like me who will detest SQL until the heat death of the universe can use something else to store mail messages.  I would also recommend not depending on the file system because in my experience, performance declined dramatically around 500 messages (ext3 adn jfs). Even though I was using an SQL database (SQLite), it was significantly faster using the database.
> 
> The standard library should probably have an API and one or two reference implementations.  I think you can a file-system based implementation moderately non-horrible. :)
> 
> -Barry

Considering all the IMAP implementations using file system containers, I
think you're right :-).

Bill