Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-09-01 Thread Christopher Chan
Rick Widmer wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: See my reply to your other post. If vpopmail can also handle multiple system user accounts instead of just virtual domain mailboxes under a single system user...we can integrate with samba and other stuff. It can. OTOH the main reason I chose

[vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-09-01 Thread Eric Shubert
Christopher Chan wrote: One large factor for me deciding to migrate to dovecot's lda ('deliver') is to use SIEVE, which is under active development and is likely to become a standard (imho). I see no point in creating another lda. Yeah, with SIEVE support being found in Kmail and addons or

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-09-01 Thread Matt Brookings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Chan wrote: What I do see is a need for vpopmail to be able to give 'deliver' any data it needs to do its job (for instance maildir or mailbox, destination location, etc). At some point vpopmail might also include providing SIEVE

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-09-01 Thread Matt Brookings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Chan wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Tying these various authentication mechanisms together is a worthy objective, regardless of the implementation software (mysql vs pgsql vs ldap). The difficulty in any case is to merge the various

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-09-01 Thread Matt Brookings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Shubert wrote: I agree. The question is, which step further? I hope a little discussion here will help to clarify that question. Given vpopmail's roots as you mentioned, I'd like to see vpopmail's focus sharpened, strengthening it's role in

[vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-31 Thread Eric Shubert
Christopher Chan wrote: Matt Brookings wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Chan wrote: Right now I can use either maildrop or dovecot's lda with postfix. No injecting into a qmail queue for final delivery into the vpopmail mail store. Are you saying you would like

[vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-31 Thread Eric Shubert
Christopher Chan wrote: I would like to see some discussion about this as well. I think that examining the role of vpopmail in today's email landscape has merit. I'm not intimately familiar with vpopmail's history, but I have used it a bit as part of the qmail-toaster (see

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-31 Thread Christopher Chan
One large factor for me deciding to migrate to dovecot's lda ('deliver') is to use SIEVE, which is under active development and is likely to become a standard (imho). I see no point in creating another lda. Yeah, with SIEVE support being found in Kmail and addons or plugins for thunderbird

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-31 Thread Christopher Chan
Eric Shubert wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: I would like to see some discussion about this as well. I think that examining the role of vpopmail in today's email landscape has merit. I'm not intimately familiar with vpopmail's history, but I have used it a bit as part of the qmail-toaster

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-31 Thread Rick Widmer
Christopher Chan wrote: See my reply to your other post. If vpopmail can also handle multiple system user accounts instead of just virtual domain mailboxes under a single system user...we can integrate with samba and other stuff. It can. OTOH the main reason I chose vpopmail is because I

Re: [vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-30 Thread Christopher Chan
I would like to see some discussion about this as well. I think that examining the role of vpopmail in today's email landscape has merit. I'm not intimately familiar with vpopmail's history, but I have used it a bit as part of the qmail-toaster (see http://www.qmailtoater.com). vpopmail has

[vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-28 Thread Eric Shubert
Matt Brookings wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Chan wrote: Right now I can use either maildrop or dovecot's lda with postfix. No injecting into a qmail queue for final delivery into the vpopmail mail store. Are you saying you would like a vpopmail lda for

[vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-27 Thread Eric Shubert
Christopher, Will you report your findings here, or at least links to the pertinent archive posts? I'm curious about this, but not enough so to do the searching. Tren Blackburn wrote: This has been gone over a few times in the past. Search the archives for the technical reasons. But every

[vchkpw] Re: Untie vpopmail from qmail

2009-08-27 Thread Eric Shubert
Christopher Chan wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Christopher, Will you report your findings here, or at least links to the pertinent archive posts? I'm curious about this, but not enough so to do the searching. Which part are you curious about? postfix 'directly' hitting the vpopmail mail