[Mailman-Developers] Why both a .msg and .db in qfiles?

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:20:49 -0600 
Jason R Mastaler <Jason> wrote:

> I'm curious why MM doesn't just store the rfc822 headers and message
> body in the .db pickle/marshal as well?  Why maintain two files
> instead of just one?

One advantage of the flat text message file is that it can be edited by
external tools (in my case XEmacs and various odd scripts) prior to
being processed and released for broadcast by the moderation interface.

  <<Yeah, I hand edit every post>>

> The reason I ask is because I'm contemplating a similar approach for
> TMDA.

Mailman v2.1 offers a choice between the above approach and a pickle.

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