Re: IMS based email

2009-03-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
Interesting question. XML certainly maps well to/from IMS DB, so to the extent e-mail data storage is similar you might be onto something. I see that some people have been working with XML data stores to support e-mail archiving, at least. There's some basic information on XML and IMS here: http:

IMS based email

2009-03-05 Thread Mikhail Ramendik
Hello, I wonder - does an IMS based *modern* email system exist? By nature email fits into a hierarchical database, rather than a relational one. The IMAP data model is hierarchical as far as I can tell. Would an IMAP server with an IMS backend be a good idea? If so perhaps someone already wrote