From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 10: 4:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.purenetfx.com (linux.purenetfx.com [207.179.24.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5151F37B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:04:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@gzmarketing.com) Received: from picard ([207.179.24.38]) by linux.purenetfx.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA18766; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:04:35 -0700 Message-ID: <005001c09c30$c5bc0210$2618b3cf@picard> From: "Brian T. Allen" To: "Brian T. Allen" , References: <003f01c09c2a$b4057570$2618b3cf@picard> Subject: Re: Mail server with users in a database? Follow-Up Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:04:45 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > I am running 4.2-stable, and want to setup a mail server (preferably not > sendmail, but it will do in the absence of another solution) where the > accounts are from a database, rather than actual user accounts on the > system. I would prefer the aliases to be database based as well. > > I want to do this so that adding a new account or alias is as easy as a web > based interface to manipulate the database, rather than work something up > with expect to work with useradd and passwd. Plus we have one system > already with 5,000+ email accounts, all shell accounts with /bin/false, and > it is slowing down the system (it is a RH 6.2 Linux box). > > Thanks! Looks like I stopped digging when my shovel was an inch from pay-dirt... I found this package: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/mail/qmail-mysql/pkg-descr Does anyone have any experience implementing this? Any comments, do, or don'ts I should be aware of? Any "qmail sucks" or "qmail rocks" information that will help? Thanks, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message