On 04/25/2013 08:56 PM, John Allen wrote:
I realize that this is off topic, but as there are more email experts
assembled here than any where else I know of ....
I have a couple of users who are using their maildir as online storage
for emails (current and archival).
They have done this on their own and are prepared to live with some of
the limitations.
What perceived limitations ?
IMAP stores in maildir format scale quite well; pretty much the only
limitation is storage I/O.
If you mean you want a more efficient mailstore, you can look into
dbmail or dbox storage (the former is a mysql mailstore and IMAP server;
the latter is a newer mailstore format supported by dovecot, among others.)
However, I think there must be a better way of doing this,
A better way of doing *what* ? What "problem" do you want to solve?
preferably one that could also be used to store non-mail documents,
provides search etc, WAN accessible.
How is that related to users who use their IMAP mailstore as a.. mail
store ?
IMAP tends to be accessible from the outside in any case, and any MUA
worth its salt can search.
I have looked at a few things, but all of them seem to have problems.
What things would those be ? You're not giving us much to go on, here.
--
J.
