zamri wrote: > hi all, > > I'm new to dbmail and started to go deeper into implementing it. I > realized there's a wiki on dbmail's site but I just still want to ask > you guys to convince me the right answers to these questions. > > 1. Does dbmail support per-user and per-group quota?
It does support per-user quota, but not per-group. There are plans to fully support QUOTA capabilities (per-folder). > 2. Does dbmail support for spam and antivirus scanner? Use amavis, or dspam, or whatever. It's an MTA issue. > 3. Can dbmail be read by standard client like Outlook, Thunderbird and > others? Yes, yes, and yes. > 4. How do I backup dbmails and transfer it to another machine? Dbmail-2.1 has a simple export tool. For 2.0 (advisable for newbies) you will have to use imapsync or something similar, or use your imap client. > 5. Is it any limitation on for dbmail by using BLOB in MySQL? None that I know of. But there may be issues with charset encodings and collation as people start running mysql-5. Dbmail-2.0 pretty much assumes a us-ascii world, and though dbmail-2.1 does use utf-8 internally (gmime) there will no doubt be issues with real utf-8 messages in terms of string handling. > 6. What db are u recommend between MySQL and PostgreSQL in terms of > performance and features? Both work very well with dbmail. Your requirements, experiences and preferences should guide you. > 7. Does it support the use of procmail? You can use procmail as your local delivery agent, and use procmail to insert messages into dbmail using dbmail-smtp. If you're accustomed to uw-imapd and server-side sorting with procmail, that's your starting point. > 8. Is there any web-based interface suitable for dbmail like OpenWebMail > and SquirrelMail? I don't know about openwebmail. But I know that opengroupware.org, squirrelmail, ilohamail all work just fine. Please note however that not all webmail clients actually handle dbmail's NAMESPACE/ACL (read shared mailboxes) support very well. Also, I have plans myself to develop a generic webmail-imap client as a zope3 component with ajax (using mochikit) that will be specifically geared to dbmail-2.2's strength (server-side filters with sieve, server-side sorting and threading, header caching). But that won't happen until 2.2 is gold. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] NET FACILITIES GROUP PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
