Kelly Clowers: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Jochen Spieker <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > >> I don't think there are many people (or organisations) that keep their >> e-mails in relational databases. Sure, mail servers like Exchange (or >> Dovecot) may have their own on-disk-format for mailboxes instead of >> plain maildirs or mboxes. But they don't use MySQL (or Postgres, for >> that matter). > > Exchange may not use MS SQL Server, but it does use a database, > namely Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) aka JET Blue (not the > same code as JET Red, which was the old Access engine). MS > looked at moving Exchange to SQL Server, but decided not to.
I already supposed something like this when writing my e-mail but
couldn't be bothered to google it. Nevertheless, I deliberately chose
the term "relational database" which does not appear to apply to ESE.
And that means I am still right. ;-)
J.
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