[Dovecot] v1.1.beta8 released

Daniel Watts d at nielwatts.com
Mon Nov 12 18:27:10 EET 2007



Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:27 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>   
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>     
>>> Changes since beta7:
>>>
>>>  - Added a new "raw" mail storage backend which allows opening
>>> files/streams as single mail mailboxes. deliver uses this now instead of
>>> opening the incoming mail as a mbox. So deliver should be now faster and
>>> it doesn't anymore remove Dovecot's private mbox headers if you're not
>>> using mbox.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Does this allow for the potential of a SQL backend?
>>     
>
> SQL backend has been possible for a long time and there's already a
> kind-of working version available:
> http://dovecot.org/patches/mail-sql.tar.gz
>
> Probably doesn't compile with latest v1.1 anymore though.
>   
Hey that's cool - didn't realise this was available . Timo what is your 
own opinion of sql based mail storage vs maildir (or dbox)? When is it a 
good idea?


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