Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 02/11/07 23:50, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Dave Sherohman wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +0000, Virgo Pärna wrote:
>> I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word
>> "compact" is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt).
> 
>     You mean the people who are oblivious to the fact that compact, as you
> described it, has been in that usage for decades when referring to databases
> and your IMAP mail store is a database?  Ooooh, chilling, innit?

IMAP is an Access Protocol.  It does not specify how the stores
imapd stores the data.  uw-imapd uses mbox files.

Still, courier-imapd and dovecot use Maildir, so lets take that:
to call Maildir a database is stretching beyond reasonableness the
definition of "database".


- From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:

  database

     1. <database> One or more large structured sets of persistent
     data, usually associated with software to update and {query}
     the data.  A simple database might be a single file containing
     many {records}, each of which contains the same set of
     {fields} where each field is a certain fixed width.

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