The implementation is for a fairly small institution of mostly high school students and staff, so about 300~400 accounts. I will be working on a deb based system [ read ubuntu ]. And yes, I would like to store the e-mails in a mysql database instead of a home directory (maildir format). I've already started on it, will get back to you soon. On 05/27/2009, melvin obiri <obirimelvin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi David, Add this to ur todo: list http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/ If u are using Fedora (U didn't specify), u need the postfix-$Version.src.rpm, and MySQL libs ; From my experience its not compiled to support db natively.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com>wrote:
Hi David,
David Njuki wrote:
Hi David,
This is very possible, Postfix supports virtual users and domains using a MySQL database, Exim does this too and in my opinion it is even better ;)
Am not sure if this is what the other David was asking. If i got his question right was if postfix can store mails in a database rather than in files inside a home directory (maildir format).
Essentially there are those who will say its bad to want to store mails on a DB format for scalability issues (speed vs scale). Since when working with DB's they tend to bloat and consume more disk space than is really necessary and then it becomes more expensive to scale DB's.
Theres however the implementation of postfix +Dbmail http://www.dbmail.org/
You may want to look at this.
if you are looking for a large scale implementation i would recommend postfix + dovecot or postfix + cyrusIMAP and some webmail system and good NAS.
Regards,
Michuki.
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