From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 18 10:35:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60AA16A405 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:35:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feargal@fbi.ie) Received: from mail04.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (mail04.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net [159.134.118.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64C8813C474 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:35:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feargal@fbi.ie) Received: (qmail 54173 messnum 5270200 invoked from network[82.141.233.46/unknown]); 18 Jul 2007 10:35:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alatar.edhellond.fbi.ie) (82.141.233.46) by mail04.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 54173) with SMTP; 18 Jul 2007 10:35:28 -0000 Received: from mablung.edhellond.fbi.ie (mablung.edhellond.fbi.ie [192.168.0.14]) by alatar.edhellond.fbi.ie (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l6IAZQSS023905 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:35:27 GMT (envelope-from feargal@fbi.ie) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:35:26 +0100 From: Feargal Reilly To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070718113526.768dc87d@mablung.edhellond.fbi.ie> In-Reply-To: <20070717222808.GA93337@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> References: <469A06D1.4030601@wlink.com.np> <20070717155834.GK46587@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> <469D1A7E.6030906@wlink.com.np> <20070717222808.GA93337@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> Organization: FBI X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Integrating Postfix + Amavisd-new + Clamav + DSpam + DBmail 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: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:35:29 -0000 On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:28:08 +0200 Oliver Peter wrote: > I think one main 'problem' with dbmail will be that if your db > crashes or stops working EVERYTHING is lost. You don't have > these problems in this dimension with a filesystem based > mailsystem. Primarily you will have to find a good > backup/failover solution for your database - regardless of > what system you will use (pgsql, mysql, oracle, mssql... > SQLlite ...) > This is a bit unfair to dbmail - the exact same applies to filesystem based mail systems. If you do not have a good backup/failover solution, and your filesystem crashes or stops working, EVERYTHING is lost. -- Feargal Reilly, Chief Techie, FBI. PGP Key: 0xBD252C01 (expires: 2006-11-30) Web: http://www.fbi.ie/ | Tel: +353.14988588 | Fax: +353.14988489 Communications House, 11 Sallymount Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.