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Wondered about that. Other reasons not to go with iRedMail.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/23/22 21:01, Lucas Rolff wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">iRedMail does not store emails in a database.
It stores account information in a database. Emails are
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dovecot <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org"><dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org></a> on behalf of
Robert Moskowitz <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com"><rgm@htt-consult.com></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 24, 2022 9:48:11 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: email location - files or sql</font>
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On 2/23/22 19:12, Ralph Seichter wrote:<br>
> * Robert Moskowitz:<br>
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>> What I am seeing is that many of the packages
seem to roll the<br>
>> messages into some SQL database.<br>
> Do they?<br>
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Packages like iRedMail list email stored in the database
of your <br>
choice. Of course this is just their web blurb, and I
have yet to find <br>
one of these that suit my needs. More and more, I am
looking at rolling <br>
my own again. Challenge has always been integrating the
anti-virus. <br>
Clamav has been quite the challenge.<br>
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>> My Dovecot setup uses the
/home/vmail/doman/../{cur,new,etc} tree<br>
>> structure.<br>
> That's the classic Maildir format. Widely supported,
works fine if file<br>
> system nodes are not a scarce commodity. Dovecot
supports other formats<br>
> (see <a
href="https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/)"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/)</a>
as well, but<br>
> I still use Maildir because it is required by
Notmuch, which is my<br>
> software of choice for handling all my mailing list
subscriptions.<br>
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I liked Maildir at the time and still do. Only a 1,000+
emails a day. <br>
My wife keeps a lot (10K messages) on the server, I keep
all of my <br>
various boxes on the server small. So do my other users.<br>
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> Personally, I would not use a relational database as
a mail store unless<br>
> specifically required by the mail system of your
choice. Email is not<br>
> organised in a way that benefits from a RDB.<br>
<br>
I was there for the beginning of RDB. Almost had NOMAD
shoved down my <br>
throat (UNIVAC) and did work with RIM (BCS) then R:Base.
Was gamma <br>
release site of DB2, where we worked out how to do a UNION
which was not <br>
supported in the original design. I have seen email
systems that stuff <br>
the messages into RDB and really wonder if the hammer
really fits.<br>
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>> Is there some nice packed mailserver I can drop
on a Centos-arm server<br>
>> that has Dovecot under the covers and I can
easily rsync my current<br>
>> mail store to it?<br>
> As far as migrating content is concerned, you're
better off using some<br>
> form of IMAP synchronisation. This method is not
dependent on the<br>
> underlying mail store format, and it preserves the
IMAP flags for your<br>
> existing messages.<br>
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I did see that mentioned once, and have down to research
it. Thanks for <br>
the pointer.<br>
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