[Asterisk-Users] "Defragmenting" mailboxes

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 13:38, Adam Williams wrote:
> >The current pthreads based locks don't work across mutiple
> >servers so something needs to be done once you move out of
> >the small office environment. The maildir design would work
> >for up to a few thousand users
> >I like DBMS based designs as they make web based interfaces
> >easy to implement and would scale to unlimited size, say to
> >someone like Verizon with a few tens of million of users.
> 
> Maybe a backed that stores the mail message via LMTP into an actual 
> mailbox?  Servers like Cyrus have solved this problem a long time ago.  
> Only question would be how to "play back" the message,  but you could just 
> store the IMAP message id (always unique).

Once you go this route, you can ignore the local filesystem problem and
just mail the file off. Of course this would be interesting in that you
could have many users have access to the mailbox.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>