Ryan thanks for your help. To be very honest I did scroll through the mail archive, but I couldn't find any 'search' feature and I gave up after reading all mails (one by one) in Nov and Oct (and I didn't want to download 20MB).
The answers received (Christian's and yours) have answered my questions and I am getting ready to testing DBMail and give it some thrashing. Cheers! Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Butler > Sent: 05 November 2003 20:49 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dbmail] DBMail: diff between 1.x and 2.x and > other questions > > > 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] > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >
