[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

Jakob Hirsch jh at plonk.de
Wed Jun 7 19:28:20 EEST 2006


John Peacock wrote:

>>  what I want hasn't ever been done before

this part especially made me laugh.

> capabilities of general purpose databases.  Feel free to go off somewhere
> and develop your database backend then come back here and announce it.
> Your constant naysaying is getting tiresome and is
> definitely off topic here.  I can only speak for myself, but I want Timo to
> focus his energy on getting 1.0 gold, not on pointless digressions about
> bluesky schemes...

seconded.

Backends could be implemented as plugins and that'd be surely something
very nice, but I think right now, with 1.0 upcoming, is not the time for
big feature additions. Software development is not done by coming up with
fancy ideas.



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