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

[Volker Krause]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 17:28:43 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> 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.

Now that we have the filesystem backend, that's no longer the case anyway, in 
the worst case recovery is not harder than with a maildir.

regards
Volker

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