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

Timo Sirainen wrote:

This is something I figured out a few months ago, mainly because this one guy at work (hi, Stu) kept telling me my multi-master replication plan sucked and we should use some existing scalable database. (I guess it didn't go exactly like that, but that's the result anyway.)

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.

~Seth