Re: DB mail

[Hans du Plooy <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:11 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 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).

I was not aware of DB Mail as opposed to dbmail.  Sorry, I mean dbmail.

> 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.

My concern is, can it handle maiboxes that are in excess of 2GB each?

And if things go belly up, how reliable is recovery?  I've had to
recover mails stored in Maildir and cyrus-imap store when discs died or
filesystems got corrupt for one reason or another, and although slow and
painful, was 100% successfull and not difficult at all.

Thanks
Hans