On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 06:17:49PM -0900, justina colmena ~biz wrote: > On January 30, 2022 5:46:53 PM AKST, dove...@ptld.com wrote: >> Storing mail in a db... at the end of the day isn't it still just a >> file (.db file) on the drive? >> >> Aren't you just adding bloat and complexity vs just storing the mail >> directly (maildir format) to a file on the drive? [...] > > You'll get better indexing and fast full text search by storing your > emails in a database rather than a flat file, hopefully after decoding > any attachments. Especially for spam scoring, analysis, and > classification. Much better performance deleting or moving specific > messages, too.
Do you have evidence to back up these claims, specifically re: mail servers? Like-for-like benchmarks, for instance? Thanks, Sam -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
