From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 9 8:51:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 147D737B71B for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 08:51:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 889 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Mar 2001 16:51:18 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 18:51:18 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Mustafa Deeb Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Qmail + MYSQL Message-ID: <20010309185118.A526@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Mustafa Deeb , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <017e01c0a8b4$44b55cd0$8d00000a@mustafa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <017e01c0a8b4$44b55cd0$8d00000a@mustafa>; from mustafa@palnet.com on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:16:16PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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