On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 16:11 -0600, Michael Segel wrote:

This may seem off the wall, but can dovecot be configured to support a connection to a database server and use the database server to store the e-mail message and its attachments?

No.

While you can use Postgres and MySQL for storing and authenticating users, there is a possibility to use an RDBMs to control the mail itself.

Thoughts?

Use dbmail or implement a storage plugin. But first read the discussions on this list about a new storage format.

johannes