From: "Arvind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> i think mysql can take the load of a large email.
> its a very nice and robust scalable database.
> especially, when it is being used in production on so many companies.
MySQL is, indeed, an excellent DB. My problem, call it a personal
irrational fixation, is with storing arbitrarily long BLOBs in it.
The worst that can happen if you stored your incoming mail in mbox or
Maildir format and when someone sends, say, a 10M attachment is a corruption
of a text file. Most probably for one user. The other users on the system
can happily continue receiving email.
When the mail is stored in a DB, the entire DB is likely to be corrupted.
Affecting all users on the system.
Furthermore, there is the question of what happens to incoming email. The
email, obviously, is going to be read by someone at some point through a
POP/IMAP server. With mbox/Maildir formats, there are numerous
off-the-shelf POP/IMAP servers you can use to retrieve the email and read
them. With the email stores in a DB, you'll have to hack the POP/IMAP
server to fetch the email from a DB.
Thaths
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