[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

Oliver Schulze L. oliver at samera.com.py
Wed Jun 7 03:24:20 EEST 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On what operations?  Suppose you want to delete a message out of the
> middle and release the file space back to the OS?  That's pretty
> quick in a filesystem like Reiserfs.
DBs have DB spaces, so, there is no need to release the space used by 1 
email.
If you have a big mailserver, releasing the space of a single email is 
not that important.

But, let not discuss perfomance in SQL, is just an old old issue.

Oliver

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