Re: [Nmh-workers] A useless but interesting exercise: Design MH from scratch in the 2014 context

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Norm,

> Here, for example, is one stab at how messages would be stored.
> Each message would be a directory. Each component would be a file or
> directory, whose name was the component name, Each MIME part would be
> a directory.

Plan 9's filesystem that presents an email as a directory is worth a
look.  It includes raw* files that give the original email.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/upasfs

Cheers, Ralph.