Hello John, The MailDir implementation (which will be retired in 3.7.0 because unmaintained) stores all the messages on disk.
The JPA implementation stores the whole message in the database (in your case postgres) within a blob column (pure SQL). If you are looking for another way to structure the message storage, this might need to be done via a custom mailbox implementation, which is not an easy task... That being said, Postgres proposes nice non-SQL abstractions for binary storage that, I am sure, performs far better than manual file management (also requires a dedicated mailbox implementation). Best regards, Benoit TELLIER On 02/01/2022 12:30, John Bester wrote: > The Apache James manual states that it supports 3 types of > repositories, namely db, file and dbfile (as configured in > conf/mailrepositorystore.xml. The only problem is that it never makes > any mention of how you choose which of these protocols to use. The > only way I could get mails to be stored to file is by changing "jpa" > to "maildir" in mailbox.xml, but then headers are not saved to the > database. It does not allow dbfile and there is absolutely no example > anywhere in the source where it shows how "dbfile" protocol can be > used. Can anybody please tell me what to do to use dbfile (I want to > use Postgres as database for headers). > > Kind regards > John Bester > Fwd: Ter inligtin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
