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

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Tue Aug 11 08:07:50 EEST 2009


Curtis Maloney wrote:
> 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"?
> 

Please, don't put words in my mouth. I'm not stupid.

~Seth


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