Peter Rabbitson wrote: > Peter Welzien wrote: >> Hi. I'm writing a webmail application that works directly with the >> SQL-server. > > Actually a question to the authors: Paul, Aaron, are you as religious > about the DBMail internals as Wietse Venema is about the postfix queue? :)
Well, I've been known to speak in tongues on this list from time to time. Does that count? > Joking aside - is the internal format considered stable enough that such > applications are safe to use, and do not risk destroying some > inter-table dependencies? If so (it is stable) is it documented > somewhere/are there plans on documenting it? There have been some discussions about cleaning up and normalizing the table and column names. That was meant to accomodate rails developers. But not in 2.2. That is for new branches only. If you're planning on using a ORM toolkit, make sure you don't hardcode the tables/fields all over the place. Other than naming, there are very few plans to expand into new tables. The cplog patch (for tracking movement of messages accross mailfolders) shows promise, so in general; new tables are likely during the 2.3 cycle. There is also some work in the pipeline to decouple message flags from the messages table. That will allow us to use different flags for the same message when accessed by different users. That's about all I can think of right now. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
