Email question (part 2)

Edward Glowacki glowack2@msu.edu
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:21:12 -0400


Quoted from Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com on Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:24:29PM -0400:
> 
> >Forgot another question I had:
> >
> >Any email programs use a database for storing messages?  Would
> >storing email in a database be logical?
> 
> Both Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes do exactly that, and can be
> configured to prune individual users' messages based on a variety of
> criteria, including date and age like you were asking about earlier.
> 
> If you want to insist on open source options, try these..?
> 
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbmail/
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmail/

gmail looks like it might be on the right track, might try to
install it and see.

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