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==Separate messages from attachments and store them in a database== | |||
Current desktop search facilities are much more productive then search tools because of their database oriented approach. | |||
In case message headers, body and attachments would be stripped the data could be integrated into a database, which might easily carry the messages of a users life and store the data separately in archives. Since attachments usually eat up so much of the precious space, these have to be specially treated and separated (i.e. to the file system) | |||
Searching and therefore finding, as well as storing and archiving could be performed fast and (semi-)automatically. | |||
==Separate download of text and attachements for POP-accounts== | ==Separate download of text and attachements for POP-accounts== | ||
There are still numerous users of Thunderbird getting their mail using modem connections - reducing size of downloads is then critical and could be achieved by more sophisticated options for downloading large files via POP: | There are still numerous users of Thunderbird getting their mail using modem connections - reducing size of downloads is then critical and could be achieved by more sophisticated options for downloading large files via POP: | ||