Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:22:02 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Brian T. Allen" <brian@gzmarketing.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail server with users in a database? Message-ID: <14996.19866.354771.194903@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <71850399@toto.iv>
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Brian T. Allen <brian@gzmarketing.com> types: > 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). Look in the ports tree. There are two qmail ports that have had databases integrated. One uses mysql for the back end, and the other uses an LDAP server. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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