Re: DB mail

[Jordi Miguel <neoclimber@gmail.com>]

Yes, you're right. I didn't answer the question directly.

I suposed that we descard the DB mail storing solution because it
dosen't make a clear difference on front of filesystem solution.

In the DBmail web it says
"Speed: Dbmail uses very efficient, database specific queries for
retrieving mail information. This is much faster then parsing a
filesystem."

I'm not agree with that. Although queries can be very efficient this
dosen't avoid to parse the filesystem later to locate the data on the
disk.

Anyway, this system stores the mail on a Mysql or PostgreSQl engine.
Depending on our demand this engines may not be enough for a good
performance. In case I had to choose one, postgre scales better (+120
connections).

I think I have answer the question this time.


" Is anyone using DB mail for IMAP store?"
Not, i'm not using it according to my opinion. I'm using filesystem
Reiser or XFS with courier imap/pop service.
The DBmail could be a good solution in low traffic environments or
another specific scenario.

Jordi

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:11 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> You know, it occurs to me that not a single person has responded to the 
> original question of " Is anyone using DB mail for IMAP store?"
> 
> I note this, because I too am interested in the answer. 
> 
> I'm guessing that Hans was actually referring to "dbmail" 
> (www.dbmail.org) - an open source mail storage engine, rather than the 
> commercial product "DB mail" (which seems to use a database to drive 
> selective mail sending - e.g. for marketing purposes).
> 
> Based on the project website, and comments on Freshmeat 
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbmail/), it seems to be a pretty 
> powerful and stable tool.  There are also several enterprise class 
> database-driven email storage products.
> 
> Is it fair to say that the lack of direct response indicates that nobody 
> on this list has used dbmail?
> 
> Miles
> 
> Jordi Miguel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Maybe you can consider Courier as well.
> >
> >
> > Jordi
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 19:31 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 19:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >> > You probably want Cyrus.
> >>
> >> Looks that way, thanks!
> >>
> >> Hans
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> 
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