WALNUT: Storing Electronic Mail in a Database

摘要

Walnut is an electronic mail storage and retrieval system developed for the Cedar environment. The most novel aspect of Walnut is its use of a general purpose relational database for storage of messages. The paper discusses the design and implementation of Walnut, with particular attention to the problems of using a database system for this type of application. (Copyright (c) 1985 Xerox Corporation.)