Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:04:45 -0700 From: "Brian T. Allen" <brian@gzmarketing.com> To: "Brian T. Allen" <brian@gzmarketing.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mail server with users in a database? Follow-Up Message-ID: <005001c09c30$c5bc0210$2618b3cf@picard> References: <003f01c09c2a$b4057570$2618b3cf@picard>
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> 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
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