On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Jure Pecar wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 20:15:22 -0500 > Walter Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With the release of Cyrus IMAP 2.1.2 there will be a new backend option: > > skiplist. > > > > We have already moved our development system to use it and performance > > seems very good. I expect we'll be moving our production system to it > > within a few months. It should not suffer from the same problems with > > insert/modify operations that the flat file has and it has better list > > speed than DB. > > > > Is there any particular reason mysql cannot be used for this purpose? > As i understand things this backend only has a need for a lot of > simple queries and this is where mysql works best. > How about the use of embeded mysql, http://www.mysql.com/products/mysql-4.0/index.html? -Igor
