[Mailman3-dev] Feature request

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 22:48, J C Lawrence wrote:

> MH folders are triviality itself:
> 
>   One file per message.
> 
>   File names are digit strings, incrementing with each new message.
> 
> It is, literally, that simple.

:)

> MH then adds various layering concepts like sequences files, but in
> general they don't apply to Mailman's interests (they essentially
> provide things like seen/unseen and abstracted views).

I wonder if we'd need sequence files if say, we wanted to repopulate a
date-indexed archive thread.  OTOH, the magical mystical message store
probably ought to not care in what order the messages are fed to it (if
say, we wanted to blow away an archive and rebuild it from scratch).

-Barry