Mark Delany wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:46:31PM +0100, Ond?ej Surý wrote:
> >
> > I just want to hear your opinions...
> >
> > How difficult would be to replace qmail-send and qmail-pop3d to
> > put and pull
> > mail to and from database (MySQL)? I don't like idea of
> > overwhelming file
> > system with milion of mails ;-)
>
> What leads you to believe that a database such as MySQL will
> not overwhelm your file system trying to do the same thing?
>
> Did you make any comparative performance measurements?
Well, this solution have some advanteges and some disadvanteges.
Let me think of some:
+ You can backup all mail much more easily. It's quite easier
to backup few database files than bunch file-per-email files.
+ You can store emails on different machine than qmail-smtpd is
running without using N(ot Reliable)FS.
+ You can run queries over emails in case you save parsed
header into db.
+ It's too much easier to access mails from web (for me) and you
don't have to use IMAP.
- Database files are bigger than plain emails.
But that has nothing to do with my previous question.
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