[Dovecot] Any plans for storing messages on a database?

Troy Benjegerdes hozer at hozed.org
Mon Apr 30 07:57:07 EEST 2007


On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:42:48PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Redudancy and recovering from a mailstore failure is one of the concerns I 
> am trying to address where I work.
> 
> Any plans to have Dovecot store emails in a database?
> 
> NAS/SAN devices which do automatic replication to a second device are 
> extremely expensive.
> 
> I also don't see any distributed filesystem which is mature and available 
> for the OS we use (FreeBSD).

You should at least check on OpenAFS..

http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/port-freebsd/2007-February/000199.html

The freebsd port looks like it might be a bit hairy yet though.


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