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This is true. Maildir and mbox are also essentially databases for email.
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
This is true. Maildir and mbox are also essentially databases for email.
- ams6110 15y agoOK. Maybe I should have said DBMS? I'm speaking specifically about the management of the back-end storage files, e.g. splitting storage over multiple size-limited files, tracking and re-using free space, etc. are all things that DBMSs provide, without a need to reinvent such things for the purposes of storing email. If there's a better term to describe this I'd be glad to learn it.