silly quesiton [ot]

[justina colmena ~biz]

You'll get better indexing and fast full text search by storing your emails in a database rather than a flat file, hopefully after decoding any attachments. Especially for spam scoring, analysis, and classification. Much better performance deleting or moving specific messages, too.

On January 30, 2022 5:46:53 PM AKST, dovecot at ptld.com wrote:
>Storing mail in a db... at the end of the day isn't it still just a file (.db file) on the drive?
>Aren't you just adding bloat and complexity vs just storing the mail directly (maildir format) to a file on the drive?
>
>What do you think you are saving? Security?
>If someone can read files on your server, they can equally read a maildir or a .db file.
>K.I.S.S.

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