On 22/11/2013 09:15, Usman Malik wrote:
Not knowing much about mail protocols, the way I think about solving
attachments (and decoupling it from db) is as following. The approach
is mostly geared towards web-mail services and is most likely outside
the scope of a typical email server. Today's email is mostly web based
and mail servers should be providing a solution for it.
1. DB to never store attachments, this is just not efficient and there
are many articles out there on this topic.
huh. I decided to use aox rather than any number of simpler and easier
to deploy solutions simply because backup is a consistent point in time,
and having attachments integrated is central to that. Whether a
memcached or equivalent could be used by the mail store for hot data is
another matter.
