Request for comments 3

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Alex,

Yes my understanding, and what I would be in favour of, would be the choice between flat files or SQL.

Regards.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Broens" <ms-list at alexb.ch>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 6:11:15 AM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: Re: Request for comments 3

On 7/23/2007 2:02 AM, Yashodhan Barve wrote:
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>>>
>>>
>> Well I, for one, would be against such a change.  I prefer text
>> configuration files.  They're simple to understand and simple to
>> change.  I personally don't see the need for a SQL database in this
>> regard.  Use relational databases when you need access to complex
>> indexed data.  This is a classic SWAP  (a solution without a problem). 
>> It you want to put a user friendly GUI on top of it that's fine as long
>> as the underlying structure is simple text.
>>
>> Richard
>>
> 
> I share Richards' view and would be against such a change. The text
> files makes things like copying config files to another server, backing
> up configuration easy.
> 
> It is also easy to diff your configurations with text files.
> imho, why fix something that is not broken?

Wasn't this about ADDING SQL support to MailScanner and NOT replacing 
the conf files with a DB layer?

Alex

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