I was reading the mailling list,
and for maildir's ? does it work? for convert an qmail instalation
Jorge
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DBMail mailinglist" <dbmail@dbmail.org>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Dbmail] A few newbie questions..
Yes there is a tool(script) that came with the dbmail that you can use
(mailboxtodbmail) for some reasons this tool(script) doesn't work well for
very big email files (XGB). I have another command you can so I will send
it to you later. Try with mailboxtodbmail right now.
regards,
Humberto
one more thing. can I convert my file-based email system to dbmail. Is
there
any howto to do this? My system is :
1. IMAP - uw-imap
2. smtp - postfix
3. OS - linux
4. front-end : squirrelmail
thanks.
On 12/3/05, zamri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the answer Paul. I'm glad it satisfies all of my minimum
requirements for me to setup one.
cheers,
~ zamri
On 12/3/05, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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