I've finally got this set up on similar machines between my old imap server
(dovecot) and my new imap server (dbmail). I'm trying to see what the
advantages/disadvantages are.
I apologize if some of this come off as being potentially flame bait. It's not
intended to be, but I think the observation is valid.
From the vantage point of a typical user (thunderbird, view/move, read/write)
this doesn't have much of an advantage. Benchmarking against a single user
series of append commands, dbmail is slower for comparable machines. None of
these machines are all that fast -- they are just what I've been using for my
mail server.
What are the advantages of a database back-end on imap servers?
(It does appear to have a pretty big foot print on the machine)
Or do they come into play when the user base and email quantities exceed a
certain order of magnitude?
Or is it more advantageous when considering the role of maintaner?
