Am 22.11.2013 um 20:25 schrieb [email protected]:

> 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.
> 
Sure. I would never destroy a clean architecture instead of tuning a DB.
 

Axel
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