No, but you do have the benefit of moving the SQL database to hardware other than the mail server. I'd think that an SQL backend would allow for better clustering than flat files as well.
-mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sam Varshavchik Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [courier-users] Re: Message Storage in a SQL database (ie MySQL) Michael Kingsbury writes: > I was wondering if anyone's given any thought (and/or tried) to store > messages in a SQL database as opposed to the conventional flat-file style? > I would think this would scale better than the MailDir format... Not necessarily. It all depends on the underlying filesystem. You can't tell me that the overhead of maintaining a relational database structure, including journaling and transactional integrity, is less than the overhead of maintaining a bunch of flat files. -- Sam _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
