Re: manual memory management

[Frederic Gobry]

> message_destroy()  this will destroy any headers, attributes etc ..
> that was cache.  message_t used a reference count to know when
> they should deallocate.

Thanks. I read the code of header_destroy to have an idea of what
these 'owner' fields were, and from that I had the feeling that
destroy was somehow intended for internal use...

> Calling the message_destroy() should give the memory back, not very
> efficient in the sense that you clear the caching etc .. but if
> memory footprint is more important ...

In a part of the code, I need to loop over the messages in a POP
mailbox, so caching is not essential here.

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