Daniel Verite wrote:
IMHO they fail to draw the proper conclusion, which is that either the raw mail should be stored as either as a binary object, or as a text field in a database with SQL_ASCII encoding, in both cases providing the level of transparency that they need by design, their purpose being to store and retrieve the mail, not to check its its contents.
They have talked about changing the messageblks to binary instead of text. They said that one of their main objections is that bytea data is not compressed. I'm not sure that's true, but I don't see anything in the docs about it. I think they would move to bytea if it does compress.
