[Discuss] Stalwart E-mail; Was: Re: SSH options

[ron at bclug.ca (Ron)]

Rich Pieri wrote on 2026-01-24 19:29:

>> It's fine for web apps, but email messages (and medical records!)
>> are a bit more important.
> 
> I have to wonder how you missed the part about MUMPS being designed
> at MGH specifically for medical records.

I didn't miss it.


I'm disputing that technical choices made *sixty* years ago are 100% the 
best choice to make today and that DBs are "the WORST possible way to 
store arbitrary files" (and that email means "files").


Sixty years ago rockets were used once and discarded. Crazy, right?



> What I can say is that
> 60 years of MUMPS succeeding where others fail speaks for itself.
Gmail stores email in databases. "Speaks for itself" in my books.


I *did* say attachments as files seems reasonable if syncing files with 
DB entries is considered, but I'd defer to the developers on the topic.


Surely both methods can be made to work quite well by skilled devs?