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

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.