From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: marcus-sup@bar-coded.net (Marcus Williams)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:07:31 +0000
Subject: [sup-talk] [PATCH] modulo the file size in a maildir,
	so it's <= 7 digits.
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On 25.1.2008, William Morgan wrote:
> I don't think so. I haven't tested this empirically, and Ferret is
> pretty darn fast, but it comes down to this: if we have to perform an
> operation a number of times that scales linearly with the number of
> messages in a mailstore (which unfortunately we do), that operation
> shouldn't be something like "do a search on a search engine". 

Yeah I was forgetting that things like imap have to regenerate them
for the whole source. Would be nice if that could be solved somehow,
that way making an id would be a one time thing.

> > Off on a slight tangent - I cant get any maildir working with sup
> > here. I added a maildir to my sources list and it gets scanned as
> > expected but nothing gets into the index. I'm wondering whether this
> > is as a result of the id function.
> 
> Is this with Jeff's fix for the id?

Dont know, will follow up with a new thread when I get back to testing
it again.

Marcus