[Dovecot] MySQL as a storage only.?

[Neil]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2008, at 4:51 AM, R A wrote:
>> Especially if you try
>> to implement cloud-like services, where you have the possibility of
>> links temporarily going down between servers, and mail can come in to
>> any point, and be retrieved or moved at any point.
>>
>> You really need transactions then, to track every mails change in time,
>> and to replicate those when you get connectivity back. You "can"
>> possibly do it by tracking dovecot logs and do the replication yourself
>> with scripts, but using a database would probably be easier here.
>
> I've also planned easy replication support for Dovecot. Also I don't think
> doing the SQL replication correctly and without losing any data on error
> conditions is as easy as you think.
>
+1
Needless to say, replication would be _very_ useful...