Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

[Christopher Chan]

I would like to see some discussion about this as well. I think that 
examining the role of vpopmail in today's email landscape has merit. I'm 
not intimately familiar with vpopmail's history, but I have used it a 
bit as part of the qmail-toaster (see http://www.qmailtoater.com).


vpopmail has potential beyond just email.




It might be useful to start with what vpopmail is not. It's not an MTA, 
an MDA, nor MSA (submission), although it interfaces with all of them. 
In my mind, vpopmail is an authentication store, which handles mail 
related data in support of virtual domains and users. Sort of a Mail 
Authentication Agent. It handles all of the data related to implementing 
virtual email services (domains and users), although it doesn't handle 
an email itself. It also provides APIs/interfaces for the various other 
Mail Agents (MTAs, MDAs, etc), so that they can obtain the data they 
need to operate according to the data stored in vpopmail. Perhaps 
vdommail or simply vmail would have been a more appropriate name. I 
kinda like the former as vdom rhymes with freedom.


vmail is taken i believe...Bruce Guenter's multi system user virtual 
domain solution whereas vpopmail started out as a single system user 
virtual domain solution




How's this for starters?

In the future (months), I would like to see qmailadmin and vqadmin 
consolidated into a single package in support of vpopmail. I don't see 
any purpose in having 2 separate web applications.


Longer term (years), I'd like to see vpopmail interface with a FreeIPA 
back end server.


Funny that, some time ago I was thinking of the possibility of tying 
things into the mysql (or whatever database vpopmail handles like pgsql 
- pgsql support is as current as mysql support now right?) vpopmail 
database...like samba, apache...but yours is slightly different. I 
noticed all the columns that are passwd structure based that were not 
quite having their full potential being used.


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Re: [vchkpw] Untie vpopmail from qmail

[Christopher Chan]

Matt Brookings wrote:

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Christopher Chan wrote:

Right now I can use either maildrop or dovecot's lda with postfix. No
injecting into a qmail queue for final delivery into the vpopmail mail
store. Are you saying you would like a vpopmail lda for postfix?
Something that supports dot-qmail rather than whatever maildrop or
dovecot provides?


I'm not specifically saying anything.  I was more interested in what others 
thought,
and was paving the way by saying that we have no objections.

Do you have any objections you'd like to discuss?


Nope. I have no objections at all to vpopmail getting a lda for postfix 
and can do things dot-qmail like. After all, you won't get that with 
maildrop or dovecot's lda. I would just like to point out, however, that 
if one goes the dovecot lda route, they get to benefit from the SIEVE 
support that dovecot has as an addon. If you are going to create your 
own lda for postfix, you might want to also consider whether you want to 
keep things as they are with respects to rule generation (currently 
web-based only? been a while...) or whether you want to try to get SIEVE 
support by providing an interface for pop3/imap4 solutions or something...


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