David wrote:
Thanks greatly for the very detailed instructions Bill, I will see how II don't think simscan supports dspam yet.. It was talked about, but I'm not sure support was added yet..
go... I hope that I can get simscan working with dspam because I would like
virus scanning...
Before I do I just thought it might be worth asking if there was aMessages stored in SQL?? You can have the users and passwords stored there, but there's really no reason at all to store the messages in SQL.. (I'm not even aware of a patch that can provide this functionality)
disadvantage to doing things this way (having messages stored in sql
database instead of on disk)?
I was interested in an sql backend because I thought that way the number ofSQL speeds things up a little when dealing with a large number of users. It does cause extra complexity, and adds more failure points. But, it's fairly easy to replicate elsewhere, and re-building the database on a new machine is pretty simple.
users would scale better and I was really worried about doing something to
the filesystem that would corrupt/lose messages for potentially many users
(I use a few CGI scripts to make administration easier). Are there drawbacks
to doing things this way, other than the obvious increase in complexity and
overhead ?
Plus you have the ability to create an endless number of useless data reports! How often people log in, average mail per user, etc.. *grin*
David.
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