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Dbmail is the name of a group of programs that enable the possibility of
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storing and retrieving mail messages from a database (currently MySQL,
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PostgreSQL or SQLite).
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* Scalability.
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Dbmail is as scalable as the database system that is used for the mail
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storage. In theory millions of accounts can be managed using dbmail. One
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could, for example, run 4 different servers with the pop3 daemon each
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connecting to the same database (cluster) server.
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* Manageability.
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Dbmail is based upon a database. Dbmail can be managed by changing settings
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in the database (f.e. using PHP/Perl/SQL), without needing shell access.
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* Speed.
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Dbmail uses very efficient, database specific queries for retrieving mail
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information. This is much faster then parsing a filesystem.
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* Security.
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Dbmail has got nothing to do with the filesystem or interaction with other
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programs in the Unix environment which need special permissions. Dbmail is
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as secure as the database it's based upon.
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* Flexibility.
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Changes on a Dbmail system (adding of users, changing passwords etc.) are
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effective immediately.
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WWW: http://www.dbmail.org/
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