pls see "RMS: A Robust Mail Store and Retrieval System"

"Clemens Fischer" <[email protected]> 18 May 2004 20:31:07 +0200
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RMS: A Robust Mail Store and Retrieval System

i didn't find anything but this PDF format, but it's worth it:

http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/papers/mailstore.pdf

basically they have a mailstore giving unique identifiers to every
message.  the system separates meta- from message-data and allows
synchronization of several mailstores.

  clemens