[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

[Marc Perkel]

Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote:
> * On 06/06/06 05:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> | So Timo,
> | 
> | Have you considered the idea of storing all the email in a MySQL 
> | database? Seems to me that MySQL could somplify all the backend stuff 
> | that everyone struggles with and with replication one could create very 
> | massive and reliable systems. What would it take to use MySQL that way?
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> Did I miss something? I thought the mail is delivered by another daemon
> different than dovecot ;)
>
>
>
>   

That's true. I would assume that a local delivery agent would also have 
to be written to pipe in email from Exim or other MTA to get the email 
into the database.