Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[Drazen Kacar <dave srce hr>]

atmczen@ibm.net wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 01:04:39 +0200
> Drazen Kacar <dave@srce.hr> wrote:

> > Wheteher a data base (relational or not) is needed, doesn't depend on
> > a mail (or messaging) system alone. If any kind of data base goes in,
> > it should be powerfull enough for all applications which might want
> > to use it.
> Do you mean that the database also has to support metadata format? I
> am not disagreeing.  I just think that metadata support in a database
> warrants a separate, in depth discussion of its own.

I agree with a separate thread for database discussion. That's why I
didn't write more about it in this one. However, my knowledge about
databases is rather limitted and I'm not very comfortable in that
field. It looks like I know more about things which cannot be done
(at all or with a decent performance or whatever) than I know about
things which can be done.

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