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Mail storage method in dovecot

Dovecot supports both mbox and maildir format to store emails. I searched its docs for storing all emails in MySQL database but i coundn't find it.

Is it possible to tell dovecot to store all outgoing and incoming emails in a database?

Storing emails in database can really be very flexible for searching emails for a keyworks in email etc..

How go GMAIL store its email? Is its based on maildir format?

Solution

  • Maildir is able to perform FTS within messages so you have to enable an appropriate plugin. Further reading is here: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Plugins/FTS

    Also, mysql as well as other RDBMS are not well suited to manage email messages, so dovecot has its own indices and search mechanisms - fast and efficient.