Reindl Harald put forth on 3/5/2011 4:46 AM: > we are using dbmail since 2009 and i love it > http://www.dbmail.org/ > > until now the administration is a weakness because i don't know > any useable, free frontend and it depends on the amount > of users / domains if phpmyadmin is enough or you have > to write frontend your own like we did in 2009 > > there exists "dbma" but after this crap deleted all our via imap > on the server copied messages with "cleanup" and the developer > said "this is expected, read the manual, the imap-client flagged > the messages wrong (thunderbird and apple-mail) i would > not use it
Given the administration front end issues you describe, what's so great about dbmail that so overshadows this weakness? What's the big advantage over a traditional filesystem mail store? Can you cluster the dbmail IMAP daemon on multiple external hosts to support thousands of concurrent IMAP users, without the locking contention of NFS or cluster filesystems, thus achieving lower latency and greater throughput? Likewise, can you cluster multiple Postfix MTA hosts delivering simultaneously into dbmail, as you can with an NFS or cluster filesystem, for greater performance and redundancy? Or must all SMTP mail be piped from a local MTA through the dbmail smtp daemon? I.e. can dbmail scale beyond a single box for redundancy and large concurrent user loads? -- Stan
