[erlang-questions] EPmail-0.2 released

[Rickard Cardell]

Hello

2011/2/18 Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED>

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Alexander Kuleshov
> <kuleshovmail@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hello Max,
> >
> >>I have 4 GB of mail. It would be more, if google allowed to send 100 MB
> emails.
> >>I don't see any reason to store user emails in anything except plain
> files.
>

Quite nice if you have a decent low number of files but as emails can be
somewhat private I personally wouldn't prefer it as easy readable files.



> >
> > User email storing in plain files, in dets storing only Username --
> > Password data.
>
> I STRONGLY advise you to hide mnesia/dets in module.
> Someone will require to use postgresql user storage, other one will
> need /etc/passwd storage.
>

OT:
I would add CouchDB. It would be a quite nice fit since you can store
attachments inline in documents or directly on disk. It would also be quite
easy to write a light weight frontend to display the emails for the user.
User authentication, replication are also in-built.


>
> mnesia is the most badly administrable choice, because there are no
> command line tools to look inside mnesia file
> and I can hardly imaging clustering abilities for mail server =)
>


//Rickard

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