why an SQL Database?

[Derek Broughton]

Caleb Marcus wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:23 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> iirc (and it's a long time since I looked into this) that's not
>> hard-and-fast.  IMAP has the ability to do that searching on the server,
>> so using a dbmail backend with Postgre, full-text searching, and IMAP to
>> present the data to KMail or other MUA should be possible.  It _may_
>> require mods to the MUA to make it send the correct IMAP commands.
> 
> You're right, IMAP does support server-side searches... so there really
> should be no problem with search speed in IMAP. It's possible that the
> user's IMAP server doesn't support fast searches, and uses some slower
> algorithm...

I'm pretty sure DBMail is supposed to (because that was supposed to be one
of the reasons it was created, iirc), but I'm also fairly sure that KMail,
for one, doesn't make use of it.
-- 
derek