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Hi list, I would just like to get some feedback
from the list on what would be a good choise for a MTA / POP3 server which will
meet the following requirements.
* usernames / aliases / etc should be stored in
MySQL or PostgreSQL
* Should be able to handle a large number of
emails
* Isn't full of security exploits.
I was going to use exim for the MTA with tpop3d
from http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/tpop3d / as the POP3 server and use
vmail-sql to manage the accounts but I found the following difficulties with
such a setup.
1. the exim packaged for Debian doesn't have
MySQL support, so an apt-get upgrade would break the system if I made my own
package.
2. tpop3d and vmail-sql don't have Debian
packages so it would be a matter of keeping up with these software packages and
building my own debs every time a new release came out.
Yes I know this last reason isn't a terribly good
one, but it is enough to make me consider the alternatives.
Alternative 1. Qmail + vpopmail.
I noticed the vpopmail package for debian is
several versions behind that on the inter7 web site. Also the
vpopmail-mysql package appears to be broken and doesn't query the MySQL database
like it should, I ended up having to build my own deb package of this to correct
the problem.
Alternative 2. postfix and cyrus imapd/pop3d
1. postfix does have MySQL support
2. Cyrus appears to cope quite hapilly with MySQL
The only flaw with this set up is that it doesn't
really allow for checking your mail on the local system via mutt or something,
not a huge problem but a slight inconvenience.
Does anyone else have any recommendations on what
would be a good configuration to handle the type of mail setup I am aiming for?
Any feedback would be most helpful.
Thanks
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