Author: Paul Branston Date: To: Roger Burton West CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Authentication/Mail storage using SQL database
I quite agree with Roger. I spent 2 years administering Oracle Office,
an email system within a database. It was quite a pain and was little
improvement on traditional Unix email systems. The only useful additions
there were to email could be supplied by other tools. Not intergrated into
the same quite I grant you but there are advantages to non-integration.
Paul
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On or about Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:03:48AM +0200, Richard Eckart typed:
> >I know there is Oracle eMail Server available which
> >stores all data in an Oracle database. It's available
> >only for Windows NT and possibly Solaris.
> >Any it's commercial and probably quite costy. But supports
> >IMAP, POP3, LDAP, S/MIME, SMTP blablabla
> >
> >Why don't some OpenSource people put thier heads together and
> >realize such a suite. I think rewriting EXIM, UW-IMAP and PROCMAIL
> >for use with e.g. PostGRESQL as backend would be quite
> >a hit in the Linux world.
>
> Speaking for myself: why on earth should we want to? A large part of
> the beauty of Unix systems is their modularity: I run Exim, procmail,
> uw-imap and cucipop, and I can swap out any of those components if
> something better comes along.
>
> The sort of project you're proposing would involve a great deal of
> effort, and offer no clear advantage over maildir-type storage.
>
> R
>
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