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