Hi,

While I find the DBMail idea to be perfect for mail server,
I believe it could use the RDBMS backend a little further.

What I am getting at is the fact that it is keeping all
sorts of information about a given message in a blob which
--if made available-- would help further usefulness.

Take, for example, From, Data, Sender, To, CC, Retun Path
fields for each message. If DBMail had parsed these fields
and stored them in a separate table, a lot of searches could
be speeded up.

The added table schema could look like something like these:

  table name: dbmail_address_headers

with fields
  message_idnr
  field_kind [integers for From, Data, Sender, To, CC, Retun Path]
  mail_address [single address per entry]

and,

  table name: dbmail_date_headers

with fields
  message_idnr
  date [send date]

One further application I have in mind is tracking
or charting email traffic in a corp environment.

I hope you will find this good enough to implement.

Cheers,


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