Sim Zacks <sim@compulab.co.il> wrote:
> DBMail is an interesting concept, but I think the real advantage would
> be if there were a client that could take advantage of the power of a
> database backend.
>
> For example, instead of saving a copy of an email in 1 folder, the
> same email could be indexed to multiple folders. Current email clients
> mimic file cabinets too much in that the system considers an email to
> be a physical entity that can only be stored in one place. Searching
> for emails can also be done much faster with a database then with a
> traditional mail client approach.
I believe that's the case with at least some of these systems; a
"mail folder" can be a query so that you could readily have various
folders that hit the same messages.
> However, to start out with, using dbmail imap with current email
> clients might be a great idea. Then the users will not even know
> that anything has changed, and I can basically build the client that
> I want directly into my ERP.
That's certainly a starting point...
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