[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:06 PM -0500 2003/10/27, Kevin McCann wrote:

>  I was thinking about using MHonarc to enhance the archive experience but
>  it doesn't work with MySQL directly so Mail::Box just might be what the
>  doctor ordered.

	No database handles "BLOB" (Binary Large OBject) storage well. 
Even high-end databases have problems in this area.  IMO, this is a 
bad idea.

	Better would be to use a mailbox format that handles simultaneous 
multiple access reasonably well.  You can use c-client and mbx 
format, or MH format, or something else reasonably decent.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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