This seems like a rather harsh suggestion. I've been using Dovecot
Maildirs for years and frequently examine the contents of Maildirs, and
in rare instances manipulate the contents. One of the reason's I'm
trying DBMail is because sql provides a more robust data interface than
file systems. It would be disappointing to find out that it is more
problematic than using Maildirs.
In fact standard mail delivery infrastructure is designed to have
multiple apps query and manipulate data stores. For instance IMAP and LMTP.
using Mysql querries, can an administrator search, query and manipulate the
records?
don't do that - the db-scheme may change and low-level tables
are no public interface, you can in theory but you have two
problems:
* complexity / error-prone / safety (if you make mistakes you leak infos)
* not a stable interface
in dbmail 2.x there was no de-duplication, all tools like my admin-backends
only working with the high-level tables are working unchanged, anything
touching message-bodies directly would needed to be rewritten
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