[ge-talk] Bookmarks and email

[Ari Haviv]

I see...beatware used a cache
For my email I have imap and gmail set to pop. So I have my email both
online and on my hard drive in case i can't use the internet or my hard
drive goes out.
I think a lot of people are into webmail only or web bookmarks such as
delicious and i think that's a bit shortsighted. Local storage will always
be very important.

On 12/20/06, Michael Phipps <mphipps1 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Ari Haviv wrote:
> > I think I remember that Beatware decided not to use single files for
> their
> > email. Apple mail switched to single files and I've seen some complaints
> > about performance.
> > Another advantage of single files: a big database is more likely to be
> > corrupted and lose data.
> >
> > It's really the layout engine that's the hardest part to do from scratch
> > since it has to be compatible with all the websites and javascript out
> > there. Then there are all those extensions...
>
> That's just part of it. With a single file, you have to lock it. You have
> to think about different layouts that effect different ways you look at
> the
> data. Plus, big database doesn't scale forever the way single file does,
> at
> least not quite so easily.
>
> I have not deleted a single email from BeOS in years. I keep ~100,000
> emails on my BeOS machine. No performance lag. Why even consider
> switching?
>
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