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

[Bernd Felsche]

On Friday 18 June 2004 11:02, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 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)?

Cyrus keeps meta-information...
	cyrus.cache
	cyrus.header
	cyrus.index
at each mail "folder" level.

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