<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Now, storing email in a database might be a controversial idea. I can<br>definitely see at the same time some advantages, but also some
<br>disadvantages. However, for an IMAP server that essentially is used only<br>by two people, I don't think the database per se can be a problem.</blockquote><div><br>What's the controversy? Think Exchange, Domino, Groupwise.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Anybody here using DBMail? Any success stories? Horror stories? "Meh"
<br>stories?</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If I do end up using it, most likely I'll use ver 2.2.5 (available in
<br>the EPEL repo) with CentOS 5, probably with a MySQL backend (but I'm not<br>sure yet, SQLite might be another option).</blockquote><div><br>1-2 years ago I migrated away from Maildir files to DBMail using MySQL. My goals was primarily stability. With replicated database servers and separating the frontend from the backend, I gained reliability and flexibility.
<br><br>This wasn't for user accounts (Exchange handled those), but for dedicated addresses related to products. Another server process typically POP'd the messages.<br><br>Generally it worked great. There's a bit of setup and testing involved, but overall I was quite happy with it. There's a web admin interface that works pretty well also.
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