[plug] Mailbox speeds (was [OT] Gmail Opinions)

[Trevor Phillips]

My existing mail system is Cyrus IMAP, which stores each message as separate 
files.
It strikes me that whatever your storage system is, if it kept the META data 
for the messages in a relational database (you know, one of them things 
designed for optimising searching & relating data?), then it'd be much faster 
for selecting a range of messages (even grouping by thread ID, etc)...

Anyone know of an IMAP server using MySQL or similar (if only for 
indexing/searching, rather than storing message content)?

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