On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 12:04  PM, Chris Muller wrote:

>> And I am just waiting for Chris Muller to announce his
>> mega-indexed-archive-using-Magma any day now. :-) :-)
>
> I do have a changeset which will parse the 250MB file and load a
> MagmaCollection with instances of MailMessage and with a keyword index 
> to boot!
>  Depending on the speed of your computer and effects of the latest
> optimizations, it is responsible to say this load will probably take a 
> long
> time.  Once loaded, access by keyword should be very fast (subsecond). 
>  I can
> send this to you if you'd like to give it a try.  It's real small, 
> just one or
> two classes, I think.

I'd like to have a look at this. I've been dissatisfied by my email 
client lately and thinking about ways to organize email that don't 
involve storing messages in folders and the having to remember where 
they are.

Colin