Suggestions needed; mail server suggestions

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Monday 09 July 2007 10:06, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I've been using Sendmail for many years now, despite a few
> (aborted) attempts to move to other systems. Until now it has
> served me well.
>
>    Thing is though, the number of email addresses and domains I
> host has been growing (and with luck, will continue to grow). My
> issue is that I don't like needing to have a shell account for each
> email address. This is insecure to a degree and makes backup and
> recovery more difficult.
>
>    So I want to move to a SQL-based mail server. I want to let
> users use their email address as their POP3 username, for
> simplicity.
>
>    So what then, good TLUG'ers, would you suggest I look at? All I
> am asking for is pointers, but recipes would be appreciated!
>
>    Thanks all!

We use Postfix with PostgreSQL for virtual accounts. Work well. I just 
adapted one of the few MySQL guides. Use proxypass if you do not want 
to have connection pooling so that you do not have the overhead of 
opening one PG connection per incoming message.
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Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, ON
Canada  M4N 3P6

<http://dinamis.com>
+1 416-410-3326
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