[Kde-pim] Akonadi outbox & dispatcher agent [tentative design]

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday, 2009-05-03, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 03 May 2009 11:34:45 Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 May 2009 00:35:37 Constantin Berzan wrote:
> > > Design:
> > > * The outbox and send-mail folders will be maildirs on the local
> > > machine (e.g. in ~/.local/share/mail/{outbox,sent-mail}).  Does it make
> > > sense to have two separate resources (outbox and sent-mail), or a
> > > single resource managing both these directories?
> >
> > The outbox does not necessarily need to have a "physical" representation
> > in form of a maildir. As it contains only temporary data anyway, it could
> > just as well only exist in Akonadi (that is currently not yet possible,
> > as Akonadi enforces a resource ownership for every collection, but that
> > will eventually change).
>
> As a user, I feel much more safe if my mail is in some maildir folder than
> in one giant big binary DB file, especially in case of errors.

It is there only transitory. Once it is sent it will be in the sent-mail 
folder.
I am not sure there is a need for a maildir resource which will be empty most 
of the time.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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