[Dovecot] Is Dovecot able to use PostgreSQL to store mailboxes?

[Bill Moran]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 21.6.2004, at 21:04, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > Subject says it all.
> >
> > (I'm almost positive this is a FAQ, or that the information is online
> > _somewhere_, but I just spent 20 minutes without finding it ... sorry 
> > if I
> > didn't search hard enough)
> 
> Well, main Dovecot web page says it:
> 
> "Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats and it's fully 
> compatible with UW-IMAP and Courier IMAP servers as well as mail 
> clients accessing the mailboxes directly. I have also plans to support 
> storing mails in SQL databases."

Ahh ... I had a feeling it would be right in front of my face ...

> Still not in my near future plans, although I've had one guy contact me 
> about making Dovecot use a library derived from dbmail as a backend.
> 
> I don't think it's really worth it to store mails in SQL database, 
> unless you really need to do it for some reason. Performance is most 
> likely never the reason to do it. Reliability and interoperability 
> might be.

Reliability is the reason for me.  We already have acceptable performance.
I'm dealing with a client that provides IMAP services for multiple clients, and
we're concerned about what happens in the event of a server failure on the
machine with the HDDs.  There's already RAID in place, but what if the mobo,
PS, controller ... etc fails.

What I'd like to do is use Postgres with Slony to keep the IMAP folders on two
completely seperate machines in real-time.

Anyway ... thanks for the great work you've done with Dovecot so far.  Maybe
I'll even have time to contribute something in the future.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com