On Thursday 06 November 2003 3:04 am, Chris Carter wrote: Hi Chris,
I have been using dbmail for only some months, I'm no dbase guru either, Here are my experiences so far which of course will vary with other users: > 1. What are the differences between 1.x versions and the new 2.0 alpha1? I do not know, I only uses the stable branch > 2. I finally twigged that DBMail does not have an MTA of its own but > uses external programs (eg: Postfix). True? Yes, I'm using postfix. Integration is very easy though. Its all in the DOCS > 3. How does DBMail's IMAP support compare to other packages? Does > M$Lookout work? Can I use Ximian Evolution? Or Kmail? I presume that POP > works just fine (but I am interested in IMAP). Im using the IMAP as well, email clients includes, outlook, outlook express, evolution and kmail > 4. Webmail support? Can I use things like Horde/IMP? How does IMAP > perform in this situation? I uses squirrelmail which works ok with the imap of dbmail > 5. Where does one configure the TCP ports (is it in the database?). in the configuration file of dbmail > 6. Is there any documentation? Yes, but its not that complete, but it good enough that you can compile, install and run dbmail on your environment > 7. Has anyone experienced something really awful with DBMail? (be honest > now :) I only experienced Mysql database corruption, that's it...which of course is sometimes unavoidable when you uses a database for storing data. Its easily can be fixed too. > 8. Is it secure to attacks? DoS, etc.? No experience with that. But I think there are patches which fixes some issues about dos attacks. regards, Kenneth Oncinian
