[wellylug] Storing Mail in an SQL database ?

[JP]

 --- Nigel Walters wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to store my mail in an SQL database AND
> access that mail via
> IMAP.
> 
> I have found "DBmail" which looks good. Does anyone
> know of any
> alternatives.
> 
Sounds like you need Microsoft Exchange! :-)

Seriously, I know that Exchange is one monolithic
mother of an application, and that Linux apps need not
be so huge and bug-prone, but my experience of
Exchange is that the database got corrupted not
infrequently.

Restoring a borked binary database is slightly more
difficult than fixing a borked write to a plaintext
mbox file!

Still, if you want to do it (and you wouldn't have
asked if you didn't) I would make sure you back up
that database regularly.

Cheers
Tony

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