Re: [Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

Am Dienstag, den 06.06.2006, 08:19 -0700 schrieb Marc Perkel:

With MySQL for storage you can use replicated databases and multiple machines running dovecot IMAP. The "filesystem" don't have the capabilities that MySQL has.

Yes it does, you just have to choose a filesystem designed to be shared. Like NFS, GFS, etc.

MySQL can't scale for writes beyond a single server, unless your application knows which server has which data.