Re: [2] Mailserver HDD organization
now i have tried postfix and exim and i like both.
But wich is more secure? any body some knowledge about that?
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:04:05PM +0100, Eelco van Beek wrote:
> What do you mean by dbmail stuff? It can use postfix, sendmail, exim or
> any other mailer.
>
> With mbox (maildir is better) messages always need to be structured.
> Dbmail saves it's messages already in a structured way, so this not
> needs to be redone every time a message is being retrieved.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eelco
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 19:41, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Previously Eelco van Beek wrote:
> > > Why not put your mail into a database?. No more security and scalability
> > > hassles. (www.dbmail.org)
> >
> > Because it restricts you to using dbmail stuff. Personally I'm very
> > happy with using maildirs and importing only select mailheaders in a
> > custom sql database so I can still have a useful adressbook and good
> > search options.
> >
> > Also the claim on the dbmail homepage that a database is faster then
> > parsing a filesystem is not true, it depends very much on what exactly
> > you're parsing and in a lot of cases a filesystem will be a lot
> > faster even.
> >
> > Wichert.
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