On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 13:04, Chris Carter wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to ask some questions which I have not been able to find > answers for. I admit I have not installed DBMail but I did see the site > and the README files in the source code. > > 1. What are the differences between 1.x versions and the new 2.0 alpha1? Check the archives, no sense hashing it all out again.
> 2. I finally twigged that DBMail does not have an MTA of its own but > uses external programs (eg: Postfix). True? True, discussion on making dbmail act like a LMTP server is ongoing and could be in 2.0. > 3. How does DBMail's IMAP support compare to other packages? Does > M$Lookout work? Can I use Ximian Evolution? Or Kmail? I presume that POP > works just fine (but I am interested in IMAP). OE, Outlook, Evolution work with IMAP, haven't tested the others. > 4. Webmail support? Can I use things like Horde/IMP? How does IMAP > perform in this situation? Horde/IMP works fine. > 5. Where does one configure the TCP ports (is it in the database?). In a configuration file. Originally it was in the database, but that made it hard to have separate configs for separate machines without making some sort of config id the machine could bind to, which would need to be in a file anyhow, so the configuration of the daemons was moved to a file. > 6. Is there any documentation? Some, search the archives, there is some url's listed with informal documentation. > 7. Has anyone experienced something really awful with DBMail? (be honest > now :) Not really, couple bugs here and there, APOP didn't work to begin with, there was a pop3 bug a while back where if someone logged in to get their mail, then the session terminated abnormally, the next person to connect to that daemon process would get the other person's mail. All those have been fixed and there is nothing keeping me from using it with around 3000 email clients > 8. Is it secure to attacks? DoS, etc.? > Haven't stressed it to see, I'm sure it can be DoS'd, but so can everything. > Sorry for all the hard questions, your information is much appreciated. > They aren't hard, they're actually very well documented in the archives and fairly easy to find. > Cheers! > Chris Ryan Butler ADI Internet Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
