Re: Can PostgreSQL be a mail backend?

From: Gunnar R|nning <gunnar(at)candleweb(dot)no>
To: Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de>
Cc: "Morten W(dot) Petersen" <morten(at)esol(dot)no>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can PostgreSQL be a mail backend?
Date: 2001-02-27 14:22:48
Message-ID: x6ofvonr2f.fsf@thor.candleweb.no
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Frank Joerdens <frank(at)joerdens(dot)de> writes:

> I don't see why it shouldn't work, since 7.1 supports an unlimited row
> width. The question is: Why would you want to do that? A filesystem is
> always faster than a database, which is usually a very important
> consideration with a mailserver (or were you thinking about archiving
> messages?).

I'm interested in the archiving aspect, e.g. having pgsql as the storage
for an imap server.

regards,

Gunnar

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