<html><head></head><body>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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 30, 2022 5:46:53 PM AKST, dovecot@ptld.com wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">Storing mail in a db... at the end of the day isn't it still just a file (.db file) on the drive?<br>Aren't you just adding bloat and complexity vs just storing the mail directly (maildir format) to a file on the drive?<br><br>What do you think you are saving? Security?<br>If someone can read files on your server, they can equally read a maildir or a .db file.<br>K.I.S.S.<br></pre></blockquote></div><div style='white-space: pre-wrap'><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>