From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 16:31:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B41D21065678 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:31:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@ourbrains.org) Received: from ourbrains.org (li48-221.members.linode.com [66.246.76.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20AE68FC16 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:31:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@ourbrains.org) Received: (qmail 23279 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Nov 2008 16:31:53 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:31:53 -0500 From: Dan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081111163153.GA23267@ourbrains.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <362012.21561.qm@web46113.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <362012.21561.qm@web46113.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Subject: Re: qmail on debian to qmail on freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:31:33 -0000 Sollunga S(sollunga@yahoo.com)@2008.11.11 04:32:08 -0800: > Hi all > > Greetings to all, this is my first time installation of freebsd, i am going to use this installation for my mail server obviously qmail+ldap. I have a bit of fear to go ahead on it, can anyone clarify please? > > Previous Qmail installation is on debian 3.x and the installation is based on http://www.shupp.org/toaster/, > > Now i want to move to a better hardware and ofcourse updated user friendly and uptodate?OS. here i opted for freebsd and qmail 1.03 along with this i want to meet users addressbook issue, so i thought of going behind ldap and mysql, (guide me if i am wrong). My doubts are earlier?the Mailbox and the?cleartext vpasswd are bit scaring me, so i would like to use mysql in place without?disturbing any of the users?mail addresses, ( i have close to 32gb of data's in mailbox's and some mailing list+forwards). also would like to procure password change option securely. How can i make this migration smoothly with the help of freebsd? > > please > Why would you want Mailbox over Maildir is beyond me. I've used qmail-ldap from nrg4u.com with excellent results before. Why would anyone would use a relational database over LDAP for email acct storage is also beyond me. It just does not make any sense once you realize LDAP's advantages.