[Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Curtis Maloney cmaloney at umd.com.au
Tue Aug 11 08:03:00 EEST 2009


Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Ick, some people (myself included) hate the idea of storing mail in a 
> database versus simple and almost impossible to screw up plain text 
> files of maildir. Cyrus already does the whole mail-in-database thing.

Why do you think 'maildir' isn't a database?

Or to you does 'database' only mean "SQL database"?

"""A database is a collection of information that is organized so that 
it can easily be accessed, managed, and updated."""

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Curtis Maloney


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