On 2010-06-13 6:37 PM, David W Noon wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:20:02 +0200, Tanstaafl wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?: > >> On 2010-06-12 5:17 PM, David W Noon wrote: >>> I wanted the messages to be stored in a single, dedicated >>> logical volume in my DASD farm. Dovecot always stored them in >>> each user's ~/Mail/ directory, so they were all over the /home >>> L.V.
>> Dovecot will store them where you tell it to. You could have >> easily stored them all in a single directory like >> /var/virtual/mail/user, or even used a hashed directory scheme >> (which might be desirable for very large installations like >> ISPs)... > IIRC, that means that I have to give universal write access, perhaps > with a "sticky" bit, on that directory. Don't be absurd. Yanrc (you are not remembering correctly). No sane software would require that, much less mail server software. > The database approach makes much more sense from a security point of > view, Ridiculous... > as nobody accesses the filesystem directly, except the database > manager. And in the case of dc, nobody accesses the mail store except the mail user you designated, and with only enough permissions to get the job done and no more. >> Storing mail in a database sounds interesting, but it *will* >> introduce a very noticeable performance hit, there is simply no way >> around it... > Actually, it doesn't. Actually, it does. You may be correct for a mail system with only a few low volume users, but on a real mail server, with many hundreds or thousands of users (many of which are heavy/power users), there is no way a DB could compete with a filesystem. Now, I'm not saying it wouldn't work - even reasonably well - I'm just saying there *would* be a performance hit, and the resource requirements would be greater as well. > But this is Gentoo. We get new releases when the Gentoo dev's allow > the new package through. But this is gentoo - you can write your own ebuild, right? ;) j/k, I get that answer too often, I just couldn't resist. That said, thankfully dc is reasonably well supported in gentoo... That said... does anyone know of a repo that provides good quality up to date builds of dovecot - maybe even including the 2.0 betas? >>> Sieve is also integrated into dbmail. >> And dovecot... and 2.0 will have even better integration. > But I have that now. ... :-) I know, but your words suggested that it wasn't integrated into dc, so I was just pointing out yet another incorrect assumption on your part. > You sound like a Microsoft zealot from the 1990's, where the next > release of your favourite product will have every feature imaginable > -- and totally debugged too! ? no need for insults, asshole - I could say the same thing about how you are praising your dbmail setup. I'm just pointing out your apparently bad info on dovecot... Oh - and procmail sucks balls...
