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

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."""

-- Curtis Maloney