hi,
I'm tring to do nearly the same thing here.
At moment my conf. includes :
0. PortSlave for dial-up and leased users (or any other portmaster)
1. XTRadius server (Based on Cistron which is based on Livingston. it is
free).
2. Qmail server (at the moment only POP auth. is made against Radius).
3. MySQL DB server which holds all user info. (The good thing is that you can
implement additional crypting for passwords, for a better protection ).
4. Later will add IIS (via MySQL ODBC) an Apache auth.
against this DB.
The whole system is partially finished and is yet in test phase. So the big
benefit will be that all user info will in one fast and reliable place (which
can fit any of your future needs), no in hard to support and protect passwd,
shadow, NIS or NT SAM base. The other benefit of this approach is that the DB
can store also accounting info which will be the base of future Billing and
Reporting software :") till moment I'm on NT SAM.
So flatfile may be is the easier approach, but it is unscalable.
I'm very interesting how you think to incorporate QMAIL routing information and
forward infos into SQL DB.
see ya
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>Hi to all,
>
>I want to create an sql-database in which I want to hold information about my
>mail-users, routing information and forwarding infos.
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>Does anybody know a sql-databaseengine which works fine with qmail?
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>Is a flatfile more efficient than a sql-database?
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Heiko Romahn
