On 4/16/07, Bryan Vyhmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:43 AM, Craig Skinner wrote:
> At an ISP that I worked for, all user config data was held in
> postgres.
> When fields were changed, new flat files were generated (passwd,
> shell.allow, ftpusers, apache, quota, etc, etc). The files were then
> scp'd to the various server farms from the postgres box.
That is an idea I had not thought of. Thank you for the suggestion.
That might be a much better way of working with a database.
> Having the mail daemons use SQL for auth was too slow.
>
would using postgreSQL for auth with postfix / Dovecot be slow even if
you used top of the line hardware say a dual core CPU and 4GB memory
w/ RAID 0?I am thinking very strongly about moving our Exchange Server
to postfix / PostgresSQL.
> Customers and support staff had web interfaces to postgres for
> config of
> services.
I am going to have to look into that. Also, thanks to others for the
exim info as well as the vote for courier-imapd. I have used courier-
imapd and I found it to be a pretty good platform but I like dovecot
better personally.
Bryan
