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Email with database-DBMail

Who doesn’t want to have a fast and reliable solution for an emails delivery? Now another refreshing product in open source development is DBMail. Currently it is supporting sqlLite, postgre, mysql. Its name is suggesting that mail contents including attachments are stored in database which is highly scalable and flexible. So no more file based storage is required and no more dependency on file system because database is there to interact. We can store up to large scale of data in a database in millions and it all can be managed by the DBMail Administrator,

its web based tool which provides lot of easier way to interact with database. Security is not an issue because it all depends how much secure your database is. Here is the pictorial representation of DBMail structure

Working is simple as it is showing in a figure; Mail Transfer Agent  MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim etc…) accepts a message then control is moved to dbmail-smtp or dbmail-imtpd. Then intraction with database comes in. DMLMUA (thinderbird, micrsoft outlook etc…) pull up emails by using POP3d/IMAP. It’s free because supported by GNU. To learn more go how to’s link of dbmail statements done their job by inserting and updating emails in db.