> The other advantages is it would scale like nobody's business. Since the > data is in postgres, you could use multiple backends (replicated with > Slony) > and have the IMAP daemons contact different back ends if the load got > heavy. With a little work, the system could failover silently as well.
It would be very nice indeed. > Like I said, we'll never know till someone tries it. It looks like > Dovecot is going to try it eventually, but it seems like they have > other priorities at this time. "Someone" already stores mails in a database: Oracle (Email Server and Collaboration Suite). I set up the Oracle Email Server 5.2 for a company I worked for earlier. And to express it nicely: It was a nightmare! Mails got stuck and rejected because the system was not capable of writing them into the database. Besides, the support for that system was also =0. We were probably the only ones daring to run the system ;-) I am glad I am running cyrus now. Extremly stable and fast. That system was not well thought through at all. I don't know how much work needs to be done for a database email store, but Oracle wasn't (isn't) able to do so. Dave _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"