On Wed, July 30, 2008 21:33, Paul Swafford wrote: > I have a M$ solution for this issue but looking for a Linux alternative. <snip> > Prize for the most elegant solution!
The most elegant solution, in my view, is the one that requires least work. So, leave the M$ solution in place. Prize, please. A PS Joking aside, you have given no context for this application, so there are too many unknowns. It might be that the application could be streamlined by integrating other parts of the system instead of just replacing this chunk. That notwithstanding, you already *have* a database containing the requisite information- it is the mailstore itself. There are already tools for trawling the mailstore, so why copy the data to a 'database'? A 'database' is just a filestore with a process sitting on top of it to manage it.
