MySQL-based eMail Service?

[roblev]

Has anyone thought of a MySQL-based eMail service? That would be tricky to do, but fun? Anyone up to the challenge? What do you think?

[lucifer]

isn't that how they all do it?

I'm sure hotmail has a db in there somewhere - may not be MySQL but it's a db and thay are all much of a muchness

[roblev]

no. they use POP and SMTP, which are servers that hold email in some way. I am not sure exactly how they operate, but I want to make my own MySQL one. Think of how hard that would be.........

[LastActionHero]

ok First things first. POP and SMTP are protocols. When someone says pop server or SMTP server it means a server is listening to connections on port 110 and port 25 to accept connections and do the needful.

Ok when you connect to a POP server the email is retrieved from where is stored on one server or over multiple servers. You need to have something i.e. file or a database which stores the emails on the servers hard disk.

Big volume sites most probably use Oracle as their database. Although MySQL has been proven to handle just as much load as Oracle.

[roblev]

yeah, it went something like that.... i am just in a rush i gotta get ready for work at 3!