>�From: Charles Benett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>�To: Java Apache Mail Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>�Subject: Re: web frontend / corba or ejb interface
>�Date: Wed Aug 16 14:53:13 EDT 2000
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> Christoph Sturm wrote:
> >
> > Hello sergek,
> >
> > Wednesday, August 16, 2000, 5:48:48 PM, you wrote:
> > slc> really it just takes one person to volunteer extra time to add
> > slc> new features. I'm planning to put out a new version of the mailet API soon
>that
> > slc> should separate the implementation
> > slc> from JAMES so mailets and matchers aren't affected by Avalon.
> > slc> We've had a couple of people ask about enterprise management,
> > slc> but nothing has happened yet.
> >
> > I thoink the main reason for this is the missing documentation. I'd
> > really like to store my messages in a database,
>
> Interesting. At what point do you want to store messages in this db?
> 1) Is this a replacement for whatever storage the mailserver uses? If
> so, how will users get their mail - would you adapt a POP3/ IMAP server
> or only use a web front end?
> 2) Or, do you want to keep an archive of messages, in addition to the
> normal mailbox facility?
> What benefits do you want that suggest using a database?
I'm actually planning to do something similar, although more for the motives of
storing listserv messages in a database. I think a generic database repository for
JAMES would be useful for a number of different situations. I see the benefits as 1)
reliability (if the server crashes mid way through saving a file, that's a probably),
2) querying (it's easier to query a relational database than a file system), 3) backup
options (mainly just for flexibility... you can backup a file system as easy as a
database, but you might already be backing up that database), and 4) use by other
applications (building a web-front end to a mailserver or showing archives might have
an easier time accessing just a database rather than loading all the Avalon framework
to understand the file system store.)
I'll work on the docs and hopefully point anyone who's interested in the right
direction.
Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies
http://www.lokitech.com/
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