[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

[Scott Penrose]

I don't want to comment on the technology, but the idea of indexing  
to me is the most interesting.

For a commercial client we are using Zimbra - and with one mail box  
containing about 12 GB of mail I can search it for practically any  
word, and even limit that to particular headers, or file types, or  
content in a file (the list goes on) in sub-1-second. I also have  
virtual mail folders that can use that same search and present those  
folders as IMAP folders - very cool.

Now that is the killer app.

Mind you - Zimbra is just too big and slow - great for commercial  
customers where you have maybe 200 or so email accounts on a box, but  
I am sure we are more used to running systems with 10,000 users per  
box - Zimbra would not cope (well... java...).

Scott
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