Kaya Saman kayasaman@gmail.com wrote:
Once we get setup this may come in quite handy! Not sure what's going on currently as everyone above me is still quite set in using an SQL DB as a mail storage system???
RDBMS where not designed for such a task. Using a relational database as a storage method for big chunks of data is very unwise, in my opinion. It degrades them to just being some sort of filing cabinet.
Now, wouldn't it be nice, if we had something like that, a filing cabinet where we can store large chunks of data and randomly read and write them in a fast manner?
Oh yes, I remember, it is called a "filesystem". Let's use some of those to store the mail data. It will be soooo awesome! ;-)
Ok, back being serious: there is nothing wrong with using a RDBMS in the way it was intented, to store user credentials, quota values, account settings, forwarding addresses, address book data, bookmarks, etc.
Grüße, Sven.
-- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.