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Originally Posted by BenM
Do you mean that Exim is actually storing your spool and/or mailboxes in the MySQL database?
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In another MySQL database, yes.
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I've not come across this feature before and don't seem to be able to find mention of it on Google or the Exim manual.
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You won't have done, I wrote the transport for it.
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Have you got any pointers to documentation? What are the advantages of doing this?
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Learn how routers and transports work and what they are for. The advantage from my point of view is that I bridgehead the POP/IMAP connections which a MySQL mailstore so apart from multiple people accessing the same row (header, content or attachment) it scales rather well.
Also included some rudimentary attachment minimisation on storage, i.e. if the attachments MD5 matches one already stored, just include a pointer rather than store the whole attachment again.