On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Magnus Sundberg wrote: > I have been thinking about a method to simplify the dbmail solution. > Right now we support two databases, this is a religous question, > I beleive we have to continue to support two databases. > We also support two MTAs, sendmail and postfix. I personally run > sendmail, and have no experience with postfix. But from what I > have heard from my knowledgable friends, is postfix at least as > good as sendmail. I beleive we could drop the sendmail support. > > Suppose we did, what can we do then? > We can move the alias expansion to postfix, with mysql/postgresql > alias lookup. > We can have a very simple recommended installation. > There are probably a lot more issues that also can be resolved by > not reimplenting them.
Dbmail works fine with exim too, and I am having exim do alias expansion because I prefer to not have dbmail generate new messages. Dbmail should remain mta agnostic, but of course, there could be a recommended setup. xn
