email location - files or sql

Robert Moskowitz
Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:12:25 -0000

I have been running a Dovecot based mail server for over 10 years and it
is time (really past) to upgrade.

I really don't want to roll my own anymore.? Too much time and too many
skills needed.? Time to retire.? But still want it 'in-house'.

What I am seeing is that many of the packages seem to roll the messages
into some SQL database.? My Dovecot setup uses the
/home/vmail/doman/../{cur,new,etc} tree structure.

Is there any pros vs cons on this that I can read?

Is there some nice packed mailserver I can drop on a Centos-arm server
that has Dovecot under the covers and I can easily rsync my current mail
store to it?

Mail-in-a-box looks interesting.? But I have not figured out its
internals and if I have to worry about anything compiled for arm that is
not part of the distro.

Thanks in advance for help.