Re: [cobalt-users] Inefficient mail storage

["Chris Adams" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 19:36:15 -0800, Will DeHaan wrote:

>There are other formatting antiquities with mail on unix.  Why not fix
>sendmail's message queuing code to use a SQL database?  It seems you
>could muck around with the queue without breaking other daemons on most
>unix servers.  Changing sendmail, qpopper and imapd to use a scalable
>(database friendly?) spool format is a big job.  The RaQ 3i ships with
>postgres, might be fun playing with that and the mail daemons.  

Actually, I was thinking of just that - something that'd use either postgres
or MySQL. POP3 & SMTP are pretty easy to implement and IMAP wouldn't be
*that* much work.