Mailing List Archive: Simplification suggestion

Simplification suggestion

Sep 8, 2003, 8:10 AM

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Hi,
I have been thinking about a method to simplify the dbmail solution.
Right now we support two databases, this is a religous question,
I beleive we have to continue to support two databases.
We also support two MTAs, sendmail and postfix. I personally run
sendmail, and have no experience with postfix. But from what I
have heard from my knowledgable friends, is postfix at least as
good as sendmail. I beleive we could drop the sendmail support.

Suppose we did, what can we do then?
We can move the alias expansion to postfix, with mysql/postgresql
alias lookup.
We can have a very simple recommended installation.
There are probably a lot more issues that also can be resolved by
not reimplenting them.

There will of course be people that don't like this, but they are
able to help us with the sendmail support, etc. when that time comes.

/Magnus

Re: Simplification suggestion [ In reply to ]

xndbmail at xerus

Sep 8, 2003, 9:57 AM

Post #2 of 4 (818 views)

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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Magnus Sundberg wrote:
> I have been thinking about a method to simplify the dbmail solution.
> Right now we support two databases, this is a religous question,
> I beleive we have to continue to support two databases.
> We also support two MTAs, sendmail and postfix. I personally run
> sendmail, and have no experience with postfix. But from what I
> have heard from my knowledgable friends, is postfix at least as
> good as sendmail. I beleive we could drop the sendmail support.
>
> Suppose we did, what can we do then?
> We can move the alias expansion to postfix, with mysql/postgresql
> alias lookup.
> We can have a very simple recommended installation.
> There are probably a lot more issues that also can be resolved by
> not reimplenting them.

Dbmail works fine with exim too, and I am having exim do alias expansion
because I prefer to not have dbmail generate new messages.
Dbmail should remain mta agnostic, but of course, there could be a
recommended setup.

xn

RE: Simplification suggestion [ In reply to ]

lists at alpha345

Sep 8, 2003, 10:55 AM

Post #3 of 4 (820 views)

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Magnus Sundberg wrote:
> I beleive we could drop the sendmail support.

Sure, we could do a popularity vote for each MTA and use only the most
popular one, and drop support for anything else? I don't actually use my MTA
(postfix) to deliver mail to dbmail, I use procmail for each user to call
dbmail and insert the messages that way... I think that the advantage of
dbmail is that there's a whole multitude of ways to give it mail, and it
still puts them in a consistent place - the database.

Matt

Re: Simplification suggestion [ In reply to ]

Magnus.Sundberg at dican

Sep 9, 2003, 1:54 AM

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Christian G. Warden wrote:

>
> Dbmail works fine with exim too, and I am having exim do alias expansion
> because I prefer to not have dbmail generate new messages.
> Dbmail should remain mta agnostic, but of course, there could be a
> recommended setup.

Well it was something along the line about a recommended setup I
was thinking.

/Magnus