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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/database.cc | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc index 45c42607..c7602906 100644 --- a/lib/database.cc +++ b/lib/database.cc @@ -54,9 +54,12 @@ typedef struct { * * Mail document * ------------- - * A mail document is associated with a particular email message file - * on disk. It is indexed with the following prefixed terms which the - * database uses to construct threads, etc.: + * A mail document is associated with a particular email message. It + * is stored in one or more files on disk (though only one has its + * content indexed) and is uniquely identified by its "id" field + * (which is generally the message ID). It is indexed with the + * following prefixed terms which the database uses to construct + * threads, etc.: * * Single terms of given prefix: * |