[CentOS] Anyone using sendmail?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Dec 5 04:22:43 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 12:08 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 21:40 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> >> On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:30:40 +0700
> >> Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at cbn.net.id> wrote:
> >>
> >>> The user is in some database such as MySQL and the directory is maybe 
> >>> in /home/mail/domain/virtualuserA
> >> Ok, I can see how that would work, but it raises the question of why?  Is
> >> there some advantage to having the mail in a database instead of simple text
> >> files in /var/spool/mail?
> > ----
> > Once you've used cyrus, you'd never go back to uw-imap or dovecot
> > 
> 
> How is cyrus today?
> 
> I had to save a pal from Cyrus 3 years or so ago. He had a problem with 
> corrupt files (but not the maildirs) and finally I just got him to 
> migrate things over to vpopmail.
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Cyrus is awesome - though it can be a bit scary to rebuild the
mailboxes.db

Then again, it isn't that hard to do but when everyone is breathing down
your neck, it makes the task seem daunting.
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> He is off vpopmail today making his own mailstore structure with postfix 
> and dovecot.
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There's nothing wrong with dovecot, it just lacks features that you
didn't know were around until you fooled with cyrus and once you get the
features going, you won't go anywhere else.

Craig




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