James A. Peltier wrote: > 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. > > BTW: PostgreSQL backend. -- 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