Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-08-21 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
Adam wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:39:24 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it even work on openbsd yet? Its got a long history of corrupting indexes, and spinning out of control sucking up 100% of the CPU. I first read this out-of-order... sounds like they are talking

Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Pancho Cole
I have been building and testing some postfix mail server configurations recently, and I am looking for advice. I currently have postfix authenticating against the password file, but I think I want to use SQL (PostgreSQL) or LDAP, though I have limited SQL experience and only some LDAP admin

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:07:19AM -0400, Pancho Cole wrote: I have been building and testing some postfix mail server configurations recently, and I am looking for advice. I currently have postfix authenticating against the password file, but I think I want to use SQL (PostgreSQL) or LDAP,

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Pancho, Of course I will install POP and IMAP I like courier-imap and courier-pop3. They are in ports. I also need to install a webmail service on the box. Perhaps Ilohamail is something for you: http://ilohamail.org/ This box will host no more than ~200 virtual domains, and some of my

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Pancho Cole wrote: I have been building and testing some postfix mail server configurations recently, and I am looking for advice. I currently have postfix authenticating against the password file, but I think I want to use SQL (PostgreSQL) or LDAP, though I have

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:07:19AM -0400, Pancho Cole wrote: I have been building and testing some postfix mail server configurations recently, and I am looking for advice. I currently have postfix authenticating against the password file, but I think I want to use SQL (PostgreSQL) or LDAP,

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:24:11PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:07:19AM -0400, Pancho Cole wrote: I have been building and testing some postfix mail server configurations recently, and I am looking for advice. I currently have postfix authenticating against the

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Massimo Lusetti
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 13:55 +0100, Craig Skinner wrote: When I worked for a small ISP that had 5000 domains, we found the best thing to do was use passwd for auth as anything else was too slow. When an account was added via the website, a perl script would pull data from SQL, generate

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:04:12PM +0200, Massimo Lusetti wrote: Well, 5000 domains and how many accounts/aliases/forwarders? Unfortunately, they permitted catchall accounts per domain, so there were only about 8000 unix accounts. Not having a list of valid recipients per domain is a very bad

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Adam
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:24:11 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never used LDAP for anything 'real', but I've heard that the only really useful Open Source implementation is OpenLDAP, and that OpenLDAP is *very* slow. You heard wrong, on both counts. We used sendmail not

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:54:49PM -0400, Adam wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:24:11 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never used LDAP for anything 'real', but I've heard that the only really useful Open Source implementation is OpenLDAP, and that OpenLDAP is *very* slow.

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:01:18PM -0400, Adam wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:39:24 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it even work on openbsd yet? Its got a long history of corrupting indexes, and spinning out of control sucking up 100% of the CPU. There is a port,

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
[re Dovecot as an IMAP server] Adam wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:39:24 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it even work on openbsd yet? Its got a long history of corrupting indexes, and spinning out of control sucking up 100% of the CPU. I first read this out-of-order...

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Adam
Nick Holland wrote: After switching my purely in-house system from SSL to non-SSL with dovecot, I must say it Sucks Less, but I'm going to be doing at home what I did with the project I'm working on at work: Give up on Dovecot. Interesting, I never tried it without SSL, so I guess I got to