Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:01:32AM +0800, Feizhou wrote: >>> Now, why would you want that ? I can think of no reason why one would >>> want to use exim + vpopmail. >> vpopmail has great user management tools? vpopmail is supported by other >> mail related software such as dovecot and spamassassin. vpopmail >> supports mysql tables which lends itself to integration with other >> software that are mysql capable. >> >> Why would one NOT want to use (favourite mta) + vpopmail? > > You do know that exim can talk directly with MySQL, right ? And > since you can specify the SQL Queries, the database can have > any format, thus integrating with everything else ? So does postfix. You are missing the point. vpopmail comes with all the tools necessary. With postfix or exim, one would have to build their own. > > I even have exim sharing the same table with radius (and currier-imap) > on one of my sites. Ah, so you have courier-auth library too. > > Having exim talking directly with spamassassin is also very good and > easy, and speed things up quite a bit. Sure. spamassassin milter + postfix milter :P > > Using things like maildrop, vpopmail, amavis etc with exim is > just a good way to slow things down. The direct connection between > exim and everything else (spamassassin, antivirus etc) allows you > to reject mails during delivery, without the need to accept it > before passing to another agent. ??? postfix -> maildrop -> home dir/Maildir Nothing in my system goes through vpopmail. vpopmail only creates the Maildirs and maintains the mysql tables.