On 6.12.2013, at 21.35, Zachary Sturgeon <[email protected]> wrote: > I am researching using dovecot with an SQL database as the storage backend. > From what I've read, dovecot only supports mbox style file storage, but I'd > like to investigate the possibility of using a database instead. > > According to http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2006-June/013818.html, this > possibility has been explored before and has generally been accepted that > Dovecot is not optimized to handle this.
http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-November/026632.html Nothing prevents adding a well working SQL mail storage backend. There just isn’t all that much point in doing that.
