On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:16:16PM +0200, Mustafa Deeb wrote:
> hi,
>
> Qmail has the capabillity of storing Email inside a table with MYSQL and do POP3
>from it as well
>
> is it better to go this approach , or the standard homedir way is better?
>
> need some openions
"It depends".
If you have a single mail storage server, and people a) login to it and
read mail locally; b) connect to it and read mail via POP3, or c) read mail
from other machines that have NFS-mounted their home dirs, then Maildir
delivery is all you need.
If, however, you want a more client-server-ish model, where mail is stored
in one location, but accessed via many (e.g. a POP3 server farm, or many
POP3 servers for many geographical locations), then maybe a central MySQL
server could do you good.
Of course, all these cases overlap more than a little - e.g. there might be
a POP3 server farm that NFS mounts Maildir's from a central server, or there
might be a single POP3 server, which, for security reasons, reads mail from
a remote MySQL database.. it all depends on how you want to setup your
network.
G'luck,
Peter
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