On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 08:48:11PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > I liked Maildir at the time and still do. Only a 1,000+ emails a day. My > wife keeps a lot (10K messages) on the server, I keep all of my various > boxes on the server small. So do my other users. > > > Personally, I would not use a relational database as a mail store unless > > specifically required by the mail system of your choice. Email is not > > organised in a way that benefits from a RDB. > > I was there for the beginning of RDB. Almost had NOMAD shoved down my > throat (UNIVAC) and did work with RIM (BCS) then R:Base. Was gamma release > site of DB2, where we worked out how to do a UNION which was not supported > in the original design. I have seen email systems that stuff the messages > into RDB and really wonder if the hammer really fits. >
What is the opinion on repairs to problems that occur? Easier to fix in a DB? That does give a simple set of fixed points and dates to make repairs simple. I backup into a tar.gz and that preserves a timepoint, but how in the heck could a fix a problem that occurs? That seems like a nightmare problem. Does anyone have any method to do that? I'd love to know that if it exists. I love Maildir, but the backups are very large. I don't have a huge set of emails, but downloading a copy to home instead of my other server is a big task. Since I use a single ISP and once had a company shut down all servers, which makes me nervous. -- Hmm, Chris Bennett
