[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

[Marc Perkel]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 16:40 -0700, Marc Perkel 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.
>   
Suppose I want to move all message from a specific host to another folder.
UPDATE table SET folder=new-folder WHERE host=value;

With databases you can do things you would have to write complex 
programs to do with files. Things that you would consider to be 
impossible are trivial with databases.

This outside the box.