Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-12-18, at 0444, Christopher Chan wrote: Darrel O'Pry wrote: I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems. I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and what their experiences were. Yeah, I use vpopmail with postfix. Love it. postfix user

Re: [vchkpw] onchange

2006-12-22 Thread John Simpson
On 2006-12-21, at 0330, Rick Widmer wrote: I think I remember you saying that you had your onchange script write to a pipe, and a program running under daemontools c reads the pipe and does the work. If so wouldn't it be a lot faster if vpopmail just wrote to the pipe? faster,

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Christopher Chan
John Simpson wrote: On 2006-12-18, at 0444, Christopher Chan wrote: Darrel O'Pry wrote: I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems. I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and what their experiences were. Yeah, I use vpopmail with postfix. Love it.

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Romero
Christopher Chan wrote: http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/validrcptto.cdb.shtml There is a better patch for vpopmail support in qmail. A mysql patch that goes straight the vpopmail mysql database but I am not sure of its location. The writer even rebuffed one of Inter7's developers when

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Christopher Chan
In addition, I believe Matt Simerson authored a tcpserver mysql patch to allow the removal of cdb files altogether. http://www.tnpi.biz - it's great for heavily loaded servers, because constantly recompiling that damn file with multiple processes tends to corrupt it. Eh? Rebuilding it

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Romero
Christopher Chan wrote: In addition, I believe Matt Simerson authored a tcpserver mysql patch to allow the removal of cdb files altogether. http://www.tnpi.biz - it's great for heavily loaded servers, because constantly recompiling that damn file with multiple processes tends to corrupt it.

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Christopher Chan
Rick Romero wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: In addition, I believe Matt Simerson authored a tcpserver mysql patch to allow the removal of cdb files altogether. http://www.tnpi.biz - it's great for heavily loaded servers, because constantly recompiling that damn file with multiple processes

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread DAve
Christopher Chan wrote: John Simpson wrote: On 2006-12-18, at 0444, Christopher Chan wrote: Darrel O'Pry wrote: I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems. I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and what their experiences were. Yeah, I use

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Rick Romero
DAve wrote: soapbox Patch smatch, if it's a patch everyone gets to beat qmail up and scream at each other about what a wasted never updated POS qmail is. So patches are bad bad bad. Only software that is poor and decrepit uses patches. But, let someone add that patch to the source code and

Re: [vchkpw] onchange

2006-12-22 Thread Tom Collins
On Dec 22, 2006, at 5:02 AM, John Simpson wrote: i think it's easier to just leave it as running a shell script- the concept is a lot easier for people to understand and administer. and again, unless you're running a huge ISP and have a steady stream of changes, the script isn't run so

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread DAve
Rick Romero wrote: DAve wrote: soapbox Patch smatch, if it's a patch everyone gets to beat qmail up and scream at each other about what a wasted never updated POS qmail is. So patches are bad bad bad. Only software that is poor and decrepit uses patches. But, let someone add that patch to

Re: [vchkpw] Re: vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Darrel O'Pry
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:01 +, Robin Bowes wrote: Darrel O'Pry wrote: I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems. I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and what their experiences were. I'd like to make the mail server change without

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Darrel O'Pry
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:44 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Darrel O'Pry wrote: I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems. I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and what their experiences were. snip I'd like to make the mail server

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Darrel O'Pry
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:02 -0600, Rick Romero wrote: I think it would be nice to feel like to owner/author of qmail was actually behind it. And to do that, he should be improving upon it - that is, accepting at least the patches that we all use. Obviously it's not a complete product,

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread DAve
Darrel O'Pry wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:02 -0600, Rick Romero wrote: I think it would be nice to feel like to owner/author of qmail was actually behind it. And to do that, he should be improving upon it - that is, accepting at least the patches that we all use. Obviously it's not a

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Christopher Chan
I'm less concerned about the smtp end of the equation. I'm more interested in the deliver half of the equation. After all that is what vpopmail plays a part in, and that is the part of the system I hope to keep. I do radius and ftp authentication against it. Currently I use vpopmail with

Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail sans qmail.

2006-12-22 Thread Christopher Chan
DAve wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: John Simpson wrote: On 2006-12-18, at 0444, Christopher Chan wrote: Darrel O'Pry wrote: I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems. I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and what their experiences were. Yeah,