Proko2 is Good News Towards Kolab2

[Jon Bendtsen]

Den 9. apr 2004, kl. 12:45, skrev Marc Groot Koerkamp:

> Jon Bendtsen said:
>> Den 8. apr 2004, kl. 16:09, skrev Bo Thorsen:
>>
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>>> On Thursday 08 April 2004 09:52, Ilja Booij wrote:

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>>> I basically don't see a single good reason to store in a db, but
>>> plenty to
>>> not do it.
>>>
>>> I dare you to prove me wrong :-)
>>
>> Not that i like the database solution myself...
>> But would the database solution not make it easier to only store a
>> message for many people
>> once, and even attachments once?  - storage is cheap
>>
>
> As far as I know kolab is using cyrus imap as imap server and talks  
> imap
> over the wire. This means you do not have to worry about how cyrus  
> stores
> the data in the backend. Cyrus has also duplicate delivery surpression
> which does what you want.

sounds good


>> Searching through messages might be easier, if you could get an sql
>> like interface?
>> doing advanced stuff like selecting all messages sent to one  
>> particular
>> customer?
>
> cyrus.squat is invented for speeding up text searches.

nice


> For more info about the backend storage of cyrus which IMHO is better  
> then
> using a db backend you can take a look at:
> http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/ 
> paper.html#3.1.%20The%20Cyrus%20message%20store

looks like you killed all the advantages i could see with a DB backend  
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JonB