From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 9 8:55:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F0237B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14bQAj-0000KQ-00; Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:55:21 -0700 Message-ID: <3AA90AF9.E3CFF332@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 09:55:21 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mustafa Deeb Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qmail + MYSQL References: <017e01c0a8b4$44b55cd0$8d00000a@mustafa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message