Miles Fidelman wrote:
A while back I came across a pretty neat piece of open source software providing a database for large scale mail storage, searching, and retrieval - with interfaces to all the standard MTAs and both POP and IMAP interfaces to the database [ but I forgot the name ]
I was wondering about it some time ago. Took a look around on the web and reading some posts in [1] and [2] made me feel I was looking for trouble if I was to abandon the standard maildir on a decent filesysstem setup (in those posts most people claim with good arguments that storing emails in a generic sql DB (like mysql, pg) would make a lot of simple tasks much slower) Anyway I have no personal experience to share - just thought you might be interested [1] http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-June/thread.html#13791 [2] http://groups.google.gr/group/comp.mail.misc/search?group=comp.mail.misc&q=+database&qt_g=1&searchnow=%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B6%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%AE%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5+%CF%83%CE%B5+%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%84%CE%AE%CE%BD+%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD+%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1.