Re: New storage?

Hi Kurt,

Thanks for the description. The proposed format is very simple, indeed,
and in fact not much different from the traditional mailbox format.
Can you please describe the advantages it has over mbox? Allow me to
elaborate:

1) The main difference of the proposed format is that messages are
delimited with a single dot. I don't see why it is important. For what
it's worth, from the algorithmic point of view, whether to look for
"\n.\n" or for "\nFrom " makes very little difference, if at all.

2) The new format drops the "From " line, but does not propose any way
to keep the envelope information. It looks like this information is
simply lost (just as it is with Maildir or MH).

3) It does not address any of the real problems of the mbox format:
locking, simultaneous access, message deletion, to name a few.

Best regards,
Sergey