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.
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