Re: RFC mailbox interface

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:13:45PM +0100, M . Thielker wrote:
> On 2001.11.25 22:55 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > I don't know that you can assume that. VFolders are an attractive way to 
> > organize mail outside the traditional hierarchical framework--I can 
> > imagine using a lot of searches to find the message I need, instead of 
> > filing each message in a single, not always appropriate, folder. If you
> 
> True, but still I would think that each message would be in at most a few, 
> say, 5-7 folders. So, what's walking a list (in-core) of 7 items? The GUI 

7 items ? you have references to the position of the message in the folder ? 

remember, we are talking about deleting. you need to know folder,index
tuples

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