From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 20 13:42:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E01316A64B for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 13:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B27343D6B for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 13:42:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 15900 invoked from network); 20 May 2006 13:42:49 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 May 2006 13:42:49 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id C9AB228423; Sat, 20 May 2006 09:42:48 -0400 (EDT) To: Jonathan Horne , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <59825.24.1.139.244.1148088476.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <446F18E9.70801@mac.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 09:42:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <446F18E9.70801@mac.com> (Chuck Swiger's message of "Sat, 20 May 2006 09:26:01 -0400") Message-ID: <44ejyoolrb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: email with a database X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:42:52 -0000 Chuck Swiger writes: > Jonathan Horne wrote: >> is there an email solution that employs some kind of database that stores >> mail for long term? id rather not turn on "leave a copy on the server" as >> this has shown to give poorer and poorer performance over time for me. >> > > People normally take backups of their machines in order to protect > against losing files, including your email. You should be using IMAP > instead of POP3 if you want your email to reside on the server efficiently. That would be my first reaction, too. But I suspect there are a lot of different possible requirements for this kind of storage, and if you really want to archive everything, keeping it out of your normal mailboxes would be more efficient and less prone to losing archives you wanted to keep. Most MTAs can be configured to save all mail on the way through, and I've known people to use procmail to do similar things. Depends on why you want the archive.