Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 18:51:18 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Mustafa Deeb <mustafa@palnet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qmail + MYSQL Message-ID: <20010309185118.A526@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <017e01c0a8b4$44b55cd0$8d00000a@mustafa>; from mustafa@palnet.com on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:16:16PM %2B0200 References: <017e01c0a8b4$44b55cd0$8d00000a@mustafa>
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:16:16PM +0200, Mustafa Deeb wrote: > hi, > > Qmail has the capabillity of storing Email inside a table with MYSQL and do POP3 from it as well > > is it better to go this approach , or the standard homedir way is better? > > need some openions "It depends". If you have a single mail storage server, and people a) login to it and read mail locally; b) connect to it and read mail via POP3, or c) read mail from other machines that have NFS-mounted their home dirs, then Maildir delivery is all you need. If, however, you want a more client-server-ish model, where mail is stored in one location, but accessed via many (e.g. a POP3 server farm, or many POP3 servers for many geographical locations), then maybe a central MySQL server could do you good. Of course, all these cases overlap more than a little - e.g. there might be a POP3 server farm that NFS mounts Maildir's from a central server, or there might be a single POP3 server, which, for security reasons, reads mail from a remote MySQL database.. it all depends on how you want to setup your network. G'luck, Peter -- What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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