Designing an innovative e-mail client
Andrea Rezzonico · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2005
Most of today's e-mail tools do not address the main problem experienced by people who get a lot of e-mail messages: information overload.This project aims to propose an applicable solution to this problem using database technology.During this work we develop a set of deferred classes which defines the main components of our proposed e-mail client.Since the proposed tool should deal with a huge amount of data we payed particular attention to performance issues.We develop a search algorithm which, according to our test, achieves a performance comparable with the fastest today's tools.We believe that the object-oriented design and the algorithm described here are possible steps towards solving the information overload problem in the e-mail domain.