Mike Wiebeld wrote: > On 6/9/06, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After considerable experimenting and thinking things through I thought >> I'd start a thread on the future of email to start planting the seeds of >> where MTA development needs to go. I'm convinced that someday soon we >> will all realize that MBOX and MAILDIR are obsolete technologies and >> that the future is going to be SQL based storage. >> > > > You might want to look at "Exchange" and "GroupWise". Exchange has had > database driven mailstores since 2000. GroupWise has had them for even > longer. > > There are several advantages to that system, but there are also several > problems. The biggest problem is database corruption and losing messages. > Databases require far more maintenance than flat files or directories of > individual files. With a corrupted flat file, I can probably recover the > messages around the corruption. With a database, I would lose more messages. >
Yep - that is true. Of course I'm assuming that the backend would be a really good database. Or - perhaps the headers could be in a database and the messages stored in files in a way that the database could be rebuilt. I am just throwing these ideas out there to inspire thought so that maybe a year or so from now people might be using this idea. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
