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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
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But I think the idea of having emails stored as separate files has a
major downside, too. If you've got, let's say, 10,000 emails being
stored as separate files, it just seems like a major headache to keep
track of these, or to backup and/or restore, vs having them stored in
one composite file.
Assuming they're stored in a structure similar to how most email clients
present them - i. e. in folders (directories) - I don't really see much
of a problem. You'd have to change the default sort order to be by date
rather than name (I do that in a lot of my folders anyway), but I don't
see that as a major difficulty.

It's academic anyway - AFAIK, no Windows email client gives the option.

Do you mean each of the 10,000 files would be stored in separate folders?
Egads! I think that would be a nightmare to look at and keep track of. :-)
I think the OE structure is a good compromise.

Not 10,000 folders! No, in the same folder structure as the "folder"
structure in the clients we do use. Yes, the OE structure - if that's a
single file for each of its "folders" - isn't a bad compromise. Still a
compromise though: I'm sure if the bullet had been bitten a while ago,
email client software would have got over the problems. (It's not going
to now, as major development in email clients has ceased.)

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