Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:55:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mustafa Deeb <mustafa@palnet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qmail + MYSQL Message-ID: <3AA90AF9.E3CFF332@softweyr.com> References: <017e01c0a8b4$44b55cd0$8d00000a@mustafa>
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> Mustafa Deeb wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> Qmail has the capabillity of storing Email inside a table with MYSQL and
> do POP3 from it as well
>
> is it better to go this approach , or the standard homedir way is better?
MySQL has relatively poor insert performance; if your mail server is very
busy this would probably not be a great option. I certainly can't see any
compelling reason to store mail messages in a database, unless you need to
be able to select messages from the database for some reason.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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