Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 19:59:37 -0400   
   From: CARLTON SMITH   
   To: HECTOR SANTOS   
   Subject: RE: questions on outgoing e-mail message storage, routing and   
   processin   
   Newsgroups: win.server.wish.list   
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   I had an idea about this issue if not previous writen, How about just an    
   indexed header for just those (sysop access) ? That is somewhat how Forte    
   handles multiple folders. The sysop or whoever can just scan the headers and    
   read what he needs to.     
   ->    
   -> On Feb 20, 2001 05:30pm, DANIEL C. MILLER wrote to ALL:   
   ->    
   ->  DCM> I need a few confirmations about storage of e-   
   ->  DCM> mail only messages in wc6 vs. wc5.   
   ->    
   ->  DCM> 1. Outgoing messages for the e-mail conference   
   ->  DCM> are all stored together in one database for all   
   ->  DCM> users, but incoming e-mails are stored in   
   ->  DCM> individual files for each user?   
   ->    
   -> This was the original wc6 designed. However, with the open testing   
   -> we did, we found many design problems and reverted back the 1 database   
   -> system.   This is one of the delays we have: Trying to improve   
   -> this by potential heavy I/O.  We might revert back to the distributed   
   -> design but we want to make sure "EVERYTHING" works first, everything that   
   -> surrounds email.   It is a complicated reason.  Just for the techies,   
   -> one of the problems was a compatibility issue with the client SDK   
   -> functions and the idea of conference 0 being a user email conference.   
   -> One example of the problem was a SYSOP trying to read the email   
   -> conference.  In wc5, the SDK functionality for this was extremely simple.   
   -> Generic Logic like this found in many of the mail reading logics in   
   -> wildcat:   
   ->    
   ->        start loop:   
   ->           Get First Email in Conference 0   
   ->                 display/list/pack, etc.   
   ->           Get Next Email in Conference 0   
   ->        loop   
   ->    
   -> controlled how mail is retrieved and/or received.   
   ->    
   -> The Login Security manager handled and determined what email was   
   -> returned from the above loop.  So if User X logged in, User X got only   
   -> his mail.  But if the sysop logged in, he basically got all the mail.   
   ->    
   -> Well, with a distributed email system, this drastically changed   
   -> what is a very fundamental logic in many of the programs in Wildcat.   
   -> It required that for a SYSOP, it became a search for ALL user mail   
   -> bins with lots of file I/O.   
   ->    
   -> So we went back until we get everything else done.  In the end,   
   -> it will be improved.   
   ->    
   ->  DCM> 2. If you send a message via e-mail to another   
   ->  DCM> user within the same wc6 system the message first   
   ->  DCM> goes into the central outgoing database, and then   
   ->  DCM> goes into the recipient's individual database?   
   ->    
   -> The bottom line it will be behave like it does now.  The only   
   -> thing we are trying to improve is the LOADING issues for the   
   -> larger email systems.   
   ->    
   ->  DCM> 3. If you send a message via e-mail to an   
   ->  DCM> Internet address the message first goes into the   
   ->  DCM> central outgoing database, then is sent to the   
   ->  DCM> recipient's mail server (possibly through one or   
   ->  DCM> more SMTP relays), and finally it goes ?WHERE?   
   ->    
   -> same answer as above   
   ->    
   ->  DCM> 4. What happens in the special case when you send   
   ->  DCM> to another user in the same system, but using   
   ->  DCM> Internet addressing? Does wc6 "know" this is   
   ->  DCM> taking place or does it just send to itself   
   ->  DCM> (again, possibly through one or more SMTP relays)   
   ->  DCM> with no special processing?   
   ->    
   -> same answer as above   
   ->    
   ->  DCM> 5. In wc6, how does a user keep a copy of their   
   ->  DCM> sent e-mail, preferably automatically under   
   ->  DCM> control of a user option?   
   ->    
   -> same answer as above   
      
       
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