Now we've got a customer who send and receive only really big mails,
mostly 10-100mb per mail. They work with big images :-) Overall e-mails
are about 140GB.
I want to switch them from cyrus to dbmail, and wonder if somebody has a
customer with lots of such e-mails (number and size). Would it be
better, performancewise, to increase the messageblks, or do I not have
to care about that? I'd better not change the default, because with
every upgrade I'd have to change it. But I need to prevent a
performance problem.
We are in a similar situation (lots of attachments - some big) - but I
cannot see taking the time/effort to switch to dbmail until it supports
single-instance storage of at least attachments. This would most likely
dramatically impact your storage requirements, as it would ours, since
I'll wager that at least some, if not a lot, of the attachments your
users work with are duplicates. Having 25 copies of an email with 25
copies of a 25MB attachment is just plain insanity to me - especially
when it doesn't have to be that way.
Having a database as a backend for an email storage system is an ideal
environment to be able to handle this, so I was very disappointed when I
found out that dbmail doesn't support it (actually I was thinking that
would be a/the PRIMARY reason to use a database to store email).
Anyway, I'm just waiting (impatiently) until dbmail supports this before
we switch. I wish I could convince the boss to make this a paid feature
request, but he doesn't 'get' computer stuff and doesn't understand how
much it would benefit us.
--
Best regards,
Charles
_______________________________________________
DBmail mailing list
[email protected]
https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
