email with a database

[Chuck Swiger]

Jonathan Horne wrote:
> is there an email solution that employs some kind of database that stores
> mail for long term?  id rather not turn on "leave a copy on the server" as
> this has shown to give poorer and poorer performance over time for me.
>   

People normally take backups of their machines in order to protect 
against losing files, including your email.  You should be using IMAP 
instead of POP3 if you want your email to reside on the server efficiently.

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-Chuck