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
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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:

I need a few confirmations about storage of e-
mail only messages in wc6 vs. wc5.

1. Outgoing messages for the e-mail conference
are all stored together in one database for all
users, but incoming e-mails are stored in
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.

2. If you send a message via e-mail to another
user within the same wc6 system the message first
goes into the central outgoing database, and then
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.

3. If you send a message via e-mail to an
Internet address the message first goes into the
central outgoing database, then is sent to the
recipient's mail server (possibly through one or
more SMTP relays), and finally it goes ?WHERE?

same answer as above

4. What happens in the special case when you send
to another user in the same system, but using
Internet addressing? Does wc6 "know" this is
taking place or does it just send to itself
(again, possibly through one or more SMTP relays)
with no special processing?

same answer as above

5. In wc6, how does a user keep a copy of their
sent e-mail, preferably automatically under
control of a user option?

same answer as above

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