Florin Andrei wrote:
I am currently using Cyrus IMAPd, and been using it for a long time, the
main reason being that I want an IMAP server with nice server-side
filtering, which Cyrus provides via Sieve. Given that Sieve is
integrated with Squirrelmail, all is good.
Or is it?
Cyrus IMAPd is powerful, but it's a complete mess to upgrade, either
when upgrading the software per se, or when upgrading the whole OS.
There are just too many "moving parts", complicated by the fact that it
interacts with SELinux. And so on.
So I'm kind of starting to hate it.
But recently Freshmeat reminded me of DBMail:
http://www.dbmail.org/
And today I noticed that DBMail uses Sieve. Very nice!
Now, storing email in a database might be a controversial idea. I can
definitely see at the same time some advantages, but also some
disadvantages. However, for an IMAP server that essentially is used only
by two people, I don't think the database per se can be a problem.
So, what I'm asking is:
Anybody here using DBMail? Any success stories? Horror stories? "Meh"
stories?
If I do end up using it, most likely I'll use ver 2.2.5 (available in
the EPEL repo) with CentOS 5, probably with a MySQL backend (but I'm not
sure yet, SQLite might be another option).
I used it quite some time ago, and it did work rather well. The most
difficult time I had was getting the mail server integration working
right. I suspect that it's probably come a long way since I used it (2
years now) and when I did use it it really gave me no problems.
A good web/other interface for administration would have been very
useful, but what was there at the time was utter crap.
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