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

Thomas McGuire mcguire at kde.org
Sun May 3 16:28:43 BST 2009


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.

Regards,
Thomas

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