[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:43 PM -0500 2003/10/29, Barry Warsaw wrote:

>  We may even want both the encoded and decoded messages stored on the
>  file system -- at the very least, we should have attachments decoded and
>  stored in separate files.

	I'm not at all sure that you want to go down this route.  One of 
the biggest headaches within the AOL mail system is the handling of 
attachment storage, what happens when the attachments get out of 
sync, etc....  Same with Eudora as a local MUA.

	I think I'd be inclined to store the message in wire format just 
the once, and deal with transformation on the fly.  At least you 
would never have to worry about the attachments getting out of sync 
with the message bodies, and maybe someone else getting the 
attachments they weren't supposed to see, or not getting the 
attachments at all that they should have, etc....

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