Re: [Nmh-workers] [patch] filtering support for inc

[Paul Vixie]

Jon Steinhart wrote:
> Ken Hornstein writes:
> > > The hooks cover everything so that one can keep track of what message exist
> > > and where they are.  The work for me, but I don't use all of the gritty nmh
> > > features so there might be bugs for some complex cases.  ...

> > Well, yes, buuuttt ... we never sat down and said what a hook can and
> > can't do.  Like, can the "add" hook move a message to another folder? ...
>
> Well, I seem to recall that there was documentation :-)  My recollection is
> that there are 3 hooks, add, delete, and refile.  And as I said earlier, they
> could certainly be made more robust.  Maybe it's time to start a discussion.

ok by me.

>  From my perspective, what I need is to know what messages exist by folder and
> message number.  My use case was to have an external database associated with
> the mh database.  What do other people want?

mine was the same as you describe. it was faster than MH-on-ZFS, but not 
faster than MH-on-UFS-on-zpool, so i abandoned it.

https://github.com/vixie/mhdb

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P Vixie