Extra Header field

Martin Konold martin.konold at erfrakon.de
Mon Jul 12 22:29:20 CEST 2004


Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 18:09 schrieb Joon Radley:

Hi,

> In most cases (90%+) the header will be missing (RFC2822), but because the
> header is optional in the other 10%, efficiency will be lost as I will have
> to parse every message anyway.
>
> By making it the law you can look at the header and decide upfront how to
> handle it without parsing the whole mail. Is this not more efficient?

It seems we are looking at different cases. I was assuming groupware folders 
not general mail folders like the trash folder. IMHO I currently fail to 
understand why the contents of the trash folder needs to be parsed anyway.

Yours,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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