[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

[Odhiambo WASHINGTON]

* On 06/06/06 06:24 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
| 
| 
| 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.

DBMail already does this, and is configurable with other MTAs ;-)


-Wash

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