Florin Andrei wrote: > I am currently using Cyrus IMAPd, and been using it for a long time, the > main reason being that I want an IMAP server with nice server-side > filtering, which Cyrus provides via Sieve. Given that Sieve is > integrated with Squirrelmail, all is good. > > Or is it? > Cyrus IMAPd is powerful, but it's a complete mess to upgrade, either > when upgrading the software per se, or when upgrading the whole OS. > There are just too many "moving parts", complicated by the fact that it > interacts with SELinux. And so on. > So I'm kind of starting to hate it. > > But recently Freshmeat reminded me of DBMail: > > http://www.dbmail.org/ > > And today I noticed that DBMail uses Sieve. Very nice! > > Now, storing email in a database might be a controversial idea. I can > definitely see at the same time some advantages, but also some > disadvantages. However, for an IMAP server that essentially is used only > by two people, I don't think the database per se can be a problem. > > So, what I'm asking is: > > Anybody here using DBMail? Any success stories? Horror stories? "Meh" > stories? > If I do end up using it, most likely I'll use ver 2.2.5 (available in > the EPEL repo) with CentOS 5, probably with a MySQL backend (but I'm not > sure yet, SQLite might be another option). > I used it quite some time ago, and it did work rather well. The most difficult time I had was getting the mail server integration working right. I suspect that it's probably come a long way since I used it (2 years now) and when I did use it it really gave me no problems. A good web/other interface for administration would have been very useful, but what was there at the time was utter crap. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com