[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

[Marc Perkel]

John Peacock wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>> To do this with MySQL would be trivial. To do it without a database 
>> isn't possible.
>
> This has nothing to do with the backend and everything to do with the 
> Local Delivery Agent.  Whether you are using a database backend or a 
> filesystem backend, the LDA would have to be able to query an index 
> for your functionality to be possible.  I can easily write a script to 
> update local user configuration for for a Maildrop, procmail, or SIEVE 
> filter to do exactly what you want, without relying on a database at all.
>
> John
>

You can't write a script to do the kinds of things I want to do because 
what I want hasn't ever been done before and it requires a database to 
do it.

I would probably create my owl LDA using MySQL commands. Feed it from Exim.