silly quesiton [ot]

[Sean Kamath]

> On Jan 30, 2022, at 10:55, Chris Bennett <chris-dvcot at freedomforlife.rocks> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:50:12AM -0900, justina colmena ~biz wrote:
>> Maybe a future programming project idea: I want a system that will store all mail messages and user account info in, say, a postgresql transactional database, a little more manageable and reliable than ad hoc databasing with those flat files all over the place cluttering up the system.
>> 
> 
> I am in progress moving towards something like that.
> As of right now, perl,  dovecot for IMAP, neomutt and OpenSMTPD.
> 
> Right now, .neomuttrc files *only* exist during the usage of neomutt.
> They have random names, cannot be written to and are immediately erased
> after neomutt starts (not quits). That is a very small window of threat.
> 
> I would very much like to put all of the messages into PostgreSQL also
> instead of file folders under the user vmail.
> 
> This is just a side project.
> As I have been advised, there is no need to even write a configuration
> file at all, but there are some issues with dbh that I need to solve
> with a different database module.
> 
> If someone can read files that never exist, well...
> At some point you have to at least consider trusting something.
> That or just turn it all off and get another career.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Bennett

At some point you gotta ask yourself why you’re trusting your database more than your OS.

And why you don’t trust the OS to handle files in a trusted way, but do for memory.

Sean