I don't have any FreeBSD experience, but I can answer some of your questions:
On my server, I support about 50 domains, and I use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] naming scheme, this is how the users are required to log in, and it works great for virtual domains. I have noticed some people who do not want to do that, but I have had no complaints from any of my clients, and it seems to work fine. The ability to add virtual domains via php/mysql instead of text files without needing to reload postfix each time is real nice.
I converted about 200 mbox files over when I first installed dbmail. I couldn't get the included utilities to work, but instead used fetchmail to parse the files. (the technique is explmained in the birdbrained.org dbmail help page.) This took a little while, but it wasn't bad, and I didn't lose anything that I know of. No one complained anyway. :)
The whole reason I started using postfix/dbmail was that I couldn't figure out qmail. I'm kinda a newbie, but there's your answer I suppose, I DID figure out dbmail/postfix in no time. It was pretty easy.
On a 900Mhz Celeron(256 megs ram) running Redhat 7.2 with postfix/dbmail and about 1000-3000 emails a day, I have no problems with speed whatsoever.
-Micah At 03:38 PM 9/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm a sys admin for a small/medium-sized ISP. I found dbmail while looking for an alternative to our current mail software (sendmail for MTA, cucipop for POP3, UW-IMAP for the rare IMAP customer...I think all of two people use IMAP, and I'm one of them). I have a few concerns prior to recommending to the senior admin and the owner that we switch to dbmail, and I'm hoping that some of you with experience with it can give me some solid facts both to assuage my fears and to pass along to my superiors. Sorry if some of these are RTFM sort of questions... * Biggest concern: how well does it support virtual domains, as well as the same username across domains? We host several hundred domains, and this is critical. How will users be required to enter their username in their mail client? Can it work with simply the username, or will they have to enter their full e-mail address? * Does dbmail play nicely with FreeBSD? How about with MySQL 4.0.3? * Can mbox-style mailboxes be converted reliably? * How does dbmail compare to Courier or qmail on ease of installation/migration/administration? Conventional wisdom and peer pressure is pointing us toward qmail, but it looks like it has a steep learning curve. * I see a lot of posts complaining about IMAP/POP speed issues. Are those common, or just greasy wheels getting attention? Are the issues more common on certain platforms? Thanks in advance for any info you can provide. Mike Jackson Willamette.Net Tech Support Eugene, OR, USA _______________________________________________ Dbmail mailing list Dbmail@dbmail.org https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
