Sounds like an Exchange Server. :-) Curtis
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Blake wrote: > Yeah, I dislike current IMAP servers exactly for the reasons you list > here. I think one file per message is the only reasonable mode of > operation. It would be best to tune the message store file system for > small inode size, and avoid the problem of large directories by storing > the messages in an /ab/cd/ef/gh type hierarchy. They would be useless on > their own, just a big soup of messages without the database. > > Ryan Butler wrote: > > >Flat files on large mailboxes are terrible performers. It might read > >sequentially faster, but try removing a message from the middle of the > >flat file... > > > >Not to mention how inflexible it is. > > > >There's patches to qpopper and uw-imapd that allow you to use a sql auth > >system with them. Maybe one of those would be better suited to what > >yoour goal is. (Its what I ran previous to switching to dbmail) > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > -- -- Curtis Maurand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maurand.com
