Am 23.04.2014 18:34, schrieb furface: > This seems like a rather harsh suggestion. I've been using Dovecot Maildirs > for years and frequently examine the > contents of Maildirs, and in rare instances manipulate the contents. One of > the reason's I'm trying DBMail is > because sql provides a more robust data interface than file systems. It > would be disappointing to find out that it > is more problematic than using Maildirs.
it's possible but unsupported and will take a lot of work manipulate the contents? don't do that - never - in no setup you break signed messages don't do that in case of dbmail because if three people have the same textfile attachment each in 5 messages you manipulate at the same time that mime-part for all of them frankly forgot the idea to re-constrcut dbmail-messages with selfmade scripts - i (as user) have spent a lot of hours to debug message-reconstruction for complex messages with a lot of mime-parts and nested attachments with the lead developer and i can tell you for sure re-invent the wheel and do that outside of dbmail leads straight to hell sure, it is do-able but it is pretty dumb use imap-libraries and fetch the recostructed message with them that is a standarized protocol, the low-level storage of a de-duplicating mailserver is usually not your businesss > In fact standard mail delivery infrastructure is designed to have multiple > apps query and manipulate data stores. > For instance IMAP and LMTP. > >>> using Mysql querries, can an administrator search, query and manipulate the >>> records? >> don't do that - the db-scheme may change and low-level tables >> are no public interface, you can in theory but you have two >> problems: >> >> * complexity / error-prone / safety (if you make mistakes you leak infos) >> * not a stable interface >> >> in dbmail 2.x there was no de-duplication, all tools like my admin-backends >> only working with the high-level tables are working unchanged, anything >> touching message-bodies directly would needed to be rewritten
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