Hi Roel, On the WU-IMAP-based boxen, we use mbox mailboxes (I know, it's terrible). All users are real users on this box (although that was a requirement of WU-IMAP, not of ours. They don't need to be real users and we'd rather they weren't) and their passwords are all held in /etc/shadow. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mapping is taken care of by Postfix's virtual domain (/etc/postfix/virtual is the default table) support.
Additionally, we would like to be able to do authenticated SMTP while maintaining the advantages of DBMail's setup. On the Cyrus-based boxen, all of the above apply, except that we use BerkelyDB-style mailboxes (as in, standard Cyrus mailboxes). The other question I have is this: Where does DBMail do it's logging? It doesn't log into a DB does it? It would be brilliant functionallity to have.... Thanks again! Chris >Hi Chris, > >In order to be able to help you could you tell us some more about how >the user, mailbox, folder and mail data are currently stored? > >regards roel > > >Chris Nolan heeft op woensdag, 4 dec 2002 om 12:38 (Europe/Amsterdam) >het volgende geschreven: > > Hi all! > > I have two questions for everyone. > > Both questions have the following common content: > > The two servers mentioned are currently running Mandrake 8.1 with the > funky ReiserFS filesystem. They both have all passwords and things in > /etc/passwd + /etc/shadow (i.e. All users are real). Additionally, > both use Postfix and both make heavy use of the virtual mapping that > Postfix is capable of (our /etc/postfix/virtual files contain 100s of > users in each case). In both cases, we are looking to drop DBMail in > as a replacement, but: > > * The first server uses UW-IMAP (I know, I should be flamed). We host > hundereds of users on this box. Most users use POP3 to retrieve their > stuff but some use a webmail interface. As we don't want to have to > input their passwords again, we need to be able to migrate their > account details and anything they may have in their mail folders. > > * The second server uses Cyrus (I'm expecting the flames to be > less...). We don't host as many users but some users have stupidly > large mailboxes (one person has 4.3GB of stuff in theirs). We need to > be able to migrate all their stuff over. Password migration isn't as > much of an issue. > > Essentially, I'm looking for recommendations for the DB in each case > and any pointers to software to assist with the migration or, > alternatively, tips on writing my own. I'm a pretty decent C, Java and > bash(lol) coder. If you consider Haskell or Prolog useful, I know > those as well. If the tools aren't out there to do the above, I'd be > happy to write them and contribute them to the DBMail project as well > as documentation of each process. > > Thanks heaps for reading this long post! > > Chris > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________
