* On 06/06/06 06:24 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: | | | Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote: | >* On 06/06/06 05:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: | >| So Timo, | >| | >| Have you considered the idea of storing all the email in a MySQL | >| database? Seems to me that MySQL could somplify all the backend stuff | >| that everyone struggles with and with replication one could create very | >| massive and reliable systems. What would it take to use MySQL that way? | > | >Hi Marc, | > | >Did I miss something? I thought the mail is delivered by another daemon | >different than dovecot ;) | > | > | > | > | | That's true. I would assume that a local delivery agent would also have | to be written to pipe in email from Exim or other MTA to get the email | into the database. DBMail already does this, and is configurable with other MTAs ;-) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ The years of peak mental activity are undoubtedly between the ages of four and eighteen. At four we know all the questions, at eighteen all the answers.