In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/17/03 at 03:21 PM, "Mitch \(WebCob\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Or your friend uses a DB to create the config fiels that courier needs, >rebuilds those DB's, and restarts courier... that's what we do Actually, it is a special case (speaking as the 'friend' Gabriel mentioned). The server in question provides a membership community function (initially on OpenACS) from which a mailing list of 'qualified' users is extracted. The user community does not (at present) have 'conventional' mail service on that server, so no .courier files or Maildirs are needed for them. The named list(s) are handled entirely by aliases, and the mailing list content generated by calls to the DB. An MLM and other modules separate from courier handle the incoming validation, demiming, etc., calling only courier's sendmail functionality. It looks as if courier's own toolset can be used to do the entire MLM, demime, and header/body reformating --- but we are not there yet. 'Learning curve' etc. - Happy to collaborate on MLM tool development for courier, tho' FWIW - I say "initially on OpenACS" as we just hours ago discovered yet-another flaw in it, this time a significant security hole in the login modules, hence are starting the tedious task of rolling our own mini-version. >All our aliases, domains and so on are made in a mysql database, then we >regenerate the courier files from that (not soemthing I can give you >though because it's a) not portable b) in development c) undocumented ;-) >But it is simple to roll your own. >m/ ACK.. Similar concept w/r creating/destroying .courier files and Maildirs if/as/when we replace 'Minimalist' (hacked), 'Demime' (hacked) with MLM constructs in courier-mta ... and/or offer on-box email accounts to the members. GOAL is basically self-registration (with 'trustee' vetting as to eligibility) and minimal sysadmin involvement in members coming, going, changing their email addresses, etc. And, no - unfortunately, the specific app is not a 'fit' to majordomo and such w/o substantial mods. Bill Hacker >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam >Varshavchik >Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:41 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [courier-users] Re: Storing EVERYTHING in a db >Gabriel Ambuehl writes: >> Hello, >> a friend of mine is currently deploying courier on some of his >> machines and made me have a look at it (current installation uses >> qmail+vpopmail). He claimed there are people who run courier with ALL >> data in a DB but I couldn't find a lot info on the topic on the site. >Your friend is mistaken. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
