- From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 22:55:25 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Cc: Earl Hood <ehood@imagine.convex.com>, www-talk@w3.org, MHonArc List <mhonarc@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
[Dan discusses several approaches to storing and mangling mail messages including MH folders, bezerkley, etc., then discusses an object based model.] Without getting into objects, the easiest way to handle mail message storage is using the University of Washington C-Client library, which is used in pine and loads of other mail readers and servers. That gets you a common interface to just about every mailbox format since the dawn of time, including simple access to IMAP. With IMAP, you can use really cool mail stores like CMU's cyrus imapd, which keeps databases of headers allowing really fast access to even the biggest mailboxes. Using c-client to build a server module, and using cyrus as the mail store should let you leverage things really fast. (see http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus.html for details both cyrus and most everything else mailish) Simon ---- (defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n" (cond ((= y 0) 1) ((= y 1) (mod x n)) ((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n)) (t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))
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