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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/17/2013 03:03 PM, Kent James
wrote:<br>
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I could be, but it isn't. Existing mbox databases have the key
equal to the offset, right? How do we change that?</blockquote>
Answered in previous e-mail...<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:50F88340.5080503@caspia.com" type="cite"> What
happens when the offset gets > 4GB and someone is trying to
access a particular message in the database using the 32 bit key?<br>
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No one should be doing that.<br>
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I'm not say it is impossible, I'm just saying it is a big,
regression-prone job that I don't think is worth taking on right
now (compared to getting maildir working correctly).<br>
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As I said earlier, if there is code that assumes a messageKey is the
offset into the store, maildir isn't going to work either, because
the msg key and the msg offset for maildir messages are never the
same. msg_offset is always 0. And code that tries to treat maildir
files as berkeley mailboxes won't work at all.<br>
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- David<br>
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