From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 17:59:04 2012 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 42878106564A for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdq@peterk.org) Received: from poshta.pknet.net (poshta.pknet.net [216.241.167.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BDE8FC15 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2054 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jan 2012 17:59:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO smtp.pknet.net) (127.0.0.1) by poshta.pknet.net with ESMTP; 27 Jan 2012 17:59:00 -0000 Received: from 216.241.167.208 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsdq@peterk.org) by smtp.pknet.net with HTTP; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:59:00 -0700 Message-ID: <485c19daafbaa67e75c6b5473c5c612e.squirrel@smtp.pknet.net> In-Reply-To: References: <1fd6a9d732998ec0a9f3227e77bc9e1c.squirrel@pop.pknet.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:59:00 -0700 From: "Peter" To: "Hub- FreeBSD" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Peter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email hosting - How do you do it? 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: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:59:04 -0000 > > On 2012-01-26, at 5:51 PM, Peter wrote: > >> Hello, >> I've been on qmail/vpopmail combo forever and am looking to build a >> new, >> mail server. >> >> First choice so far is postfix, but almost all the virtual hosting >> 'howtos' require an SQL database, or editing files by hand. The SQL part >> seems like an overkill for ~20-50 email accounts, the editing files by >> hand seems like a pain and requires me doing everything but I'd rather >> let >> people manage their own domains. > > SQL == SQLite for me … you don't need mysql/postgresql for doing it … Ok, and how do you manage it? web based? custom scripts? edit files by hand? how do users change their password? can they admin their domain? ]Peter[