Thank you for the feedback so far. Seems the right people are here. :) First the environment. We're a small webhosting company that is actually managed by my dad and me only, where I do the tech stuff. I'm running that Jabber server to the public and primarily set it up for my personal use. I don't expect more than a handful of users to show up there in the near future (currently there's two users). So performance/scalability isn't an important thing to me. I could even say I don't need a data import facility right now, but that shouldn't be too often in the future... In any case I'm going to use an open database (MySQL would be good). I never managed to export that Erlang database thing (forgot its name) and I somewhat dislike closed data storage systems.
I've been looking through the Wildfire issue tracker and forums yesterday and I've seen that Privacy Lists are planned for a soon version, but it's also been deferred in the past. So let's see when it's ready. I'm not sure if using Spark is an option for me. I'm so much used to Psi already. :) ejabberd has virtual domains support which is a thing I really could use. Once I have setup my e-mail spam filter, I could use the same jid as my e-mail is. Currently that's on different domain names. While the Wildfire web interface says "Domain name(s)" (translated from "Domainname(n)") we haven't seen where one could manage multiple domains per server. I've never had much luck with that Erlang thing. I somehow did manage to get an old version (8.x or so) compiled or found an external Debian package but that won't do for ejabberd 1.0 so I'll need to go with the binaries from process-one. I don't even rudimentary understand Erlang so not having the source code is okay for me, but I don't think I can use bleeding-edge CVS or patched versions this way. I don't know if that may become a problem. Wildfire is a Java application, which makes it equally portable (a friend tested it yesterday, first on Windows then on Linux, that's where I checked out the web interface) but I assume (didn't try it yet) that Java should be easy to install and since I do read and write Java I'm able to build it on my own if in need or even create plug-ins. The time schedule for this is something around one or two months. I'm planning to get a new server by then and I'm currently preparing the new setup. I think I'll be able to try out both servers on my test machine by then. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Does the movement of the trees make the wind blow?" http://newsboard.unclassified.de - Unclassified NewsBoard Forum
