Ben wrote:
Marc, I don't think anybody would dislike this option to be available, but at the same time it seems that all your examples of why this would be useful are corner cases, and most people would rather have Timo work on other things. So, given that Timo is nothing more than a slave for the majority :) please stop arguing your case and go and make your solution to your problems. If it ends up being useful, I'm sure it can find its way into Dovecot's codebase.
One suggestion. Because you keep talking about how this is not about performance but about power, if I were you I'd stop focusing so much on mySQL, and look start looking at more powerful implementations of SQL.
Ben,
I'm not saying that Timo should do it now, and I'm not saying it should be limited to just MySQL. I'm just planting the idea for the future. I'm just at the stage of selling the idea. I think Timo needs to do the 1.0 first as well. I'm just laying out ideas for down the road.