On Sun, 12 May 2002, Dustin Puryear wrote: > On the subject you mention however, has > there been any work toward using mysql as a mailstore?
Not with Courier, I hope. Microsoft is trying hard to make this approach work with Exchange, as is Cyrus. > It seems like it would be an excellent way to increase the > scalability of a mail server. An RDBMS multiplies the work required to read and write data by several times. In terms of speed, the best RDBMS get about 5-6x filesystem access I believe. ACID compliance has very high costs, in particular with respecrt to transactions. So in fact what you propose is more like inverse scaleability :-) > (For one, no NFS issues!) Has this approach been considered? Maildir has no NFS issues. It really is an elegant solution to a common problem. I feel that email might be one of the best immediate examples of a real-world problem that lends itself to being solved by the techniques described at http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html. -- Dan Shearer Open Source Manager Mob: +61 411 49 1800 Tel: +61 8 8130 3104 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
