From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3eRn-0004vm-Ee for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:40:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7CIcQwa008979; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:38:26 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7CIcPcu022260 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:38:26 GMT Received: (qmail 97745 invoked by uid 0); 12 Aug 2005 18:38:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 18:38:25 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:35:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) In-Reply-To: <42FCDC60.2050404@badapple.net> Message-ID: References: <1123731973.5878.30.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <42FAD180.3030902@buanzo.com.ar> <1123735176.5878.36.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <42FB63A5.8040600@badapple.net> <42FB8241.2040408@badapple.net> <42FBA68A.4030607@badapple.net> <42FBAE60.1050100@badapple.net> <42FCDC60.2050404@badapple.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 945f39be-49aa-46dc-b730-5b136e225ae9 X-Archives-Hash: 9a613d3980c14b32b965102b8c55e29d On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, kashani wrote: > To the original poster you can go fully virtual by combining X auth > method with Y backend with no local accounts. I'd go this route if the > users that need local access to machine aren't likely to reside in a > single email domain. In my case users that need access to the box work > here so I made our domain local, gave ourselves local accounts, and our > customers get to be virtual. The pros here that it's easy and you can > leave your sshd, ftpd, etc configs alone. Sure, that's fine when you have ONE server I agree - its just not scaleable. > Messing with a virtual mail > system is sometimes hard enough the first time around for a lot of > people and doing everything at once can be painful and most importantly > cause sleep loss. A long time ago, we too, used to have a single server with everything on it running sendmail, IMAP, etc, and we had all sort of performance problems because of the lack of scalability. It took us several months to setup the new system - I wrote a *lot* of perl scripts to do this migration away from sendmail to our qmail+vpopmail+MySQL setup. In the end though it was worth it. We now have a scaleable solution and it also enabled us to offer new packages that we couldn't do before. > Cons of course are that if you need to add local users from any other > domain at some point in the future you're likely to need to re-engineer > things a bit... or a lot. And also make the old local users start using > their email as the login instead of their old username which is always a > fun transition. Making the local domain, the "default" domain in our mail system helped a lot here. Of course, we spent a lot of time in support answering calls and emails but things died down after a few weeks. Id rather do that than deal with the constant problems of the old system. -- -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list