Ok, this raises for me an interesting questions....should vpopmail only ever use a local db? Or is it reasonable to try using a remote (obviously not too terribly remote) db?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Clayton Weise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:47 PM > To: 'Benjamin Tomhave'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [vchkpw] switching database servers > > > That might be feasable.. if vpopmail ran as a daemon. But vpopmail gets > called on by qmail. So if vpopmail had a config file it could damper it's > performance (on slower systems, quite heavily) because every single time > vpopmail was run it would have to read that config file. Remember that > vpopmail is called on upon every message delivery, password > check, etc etc. > > -Clayton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [vchkpw] switching database servers > > > What would it take for this to be a configurable parameter instead of a > compiled-in parameter? In other words, would it be possible to > add a config > file, read at startup, from, say vpopmail/etc or qmail/control or similar? > It seems to me that this would make a lot more sense than requiring the > server, user and password to be compiled into the program itself. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Clayton Weise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:47 PM > > To: 'Benjamin Tomhave'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [vchkpw] switching database servers > > > > > > Recompile. And do it from fresh source, don't just do a make clean > > and reconfigure it. > > > > -Clayton > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:41 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [vchkpw] switching database servers > > > > > > Hello, > > > > If I want to switch from using localhost to another remote host for my > > vpopmail, does that require a rebuild/recompile, or is there a > > configurable parameter somewhere that can be modified to make that > > adjustment? My notes > > seem to imply that the only way to change this is by editting the proper > > values in the vmysql.h file. > > > > Thank you, > > > > -ben > > > > -------------------------------------------- > > Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sofast Communications www.sofast.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
