[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

Odhiambo WASHINGTON odhiambo.raburu at wananchi.com
Tue Jun 6 16:15:30 EEST 2006


* 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 ;)


-Wash

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