Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:35:26 +0100 From: Feargal Reilly <feargal@fbi.ie> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Integrating Postfix + Amavisd-new + Clamav + DSpam + DBmail 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>
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:28:08 +0200 Oliver Peter <hoschi@mouhaha.de> 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.
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