Lainaus Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 23:21, Joakim Ryden wrote: > > > on 02/08/2004 03:15 AM Michael Jonsson said the following: > > > For all the mail... > > > > Mail is not stored in any database. > > > > -- > > > May not be now, But is there any reason mail cannot be stored in a > database. Or a ldap directory. > This thought occurred to me When I tried to integrate a web > application > with cyrus. A database will offer such a host of new possibilities
I think this subject is already discussed many times before, so you might want to search the list archives. There's no reason why it can't be done, but I think there's many reasons why it shouldn't be done. IMHO it's not so good idea. You gain very little from this compared to the trouble with it. I also think it's not very efficient, at least if you just use a plain external database for it. Using the file system for storing mails and separate cache/index files as Cyrus does currently is, in my opinion, much more efficient. A database is not optimized for mail, queries are slow compared to file access etc. -Tero -- Tero Matinlassi --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
