Directadmin looks great, it seems we can have other servers act as DNS servers, even if its by running DA on them, but what about mail?
It would be awesome to have the ability to configure mail via a database.
Even ifs something like, when setting up server, a setting "disable local mail" which would offer enter a call to, even a perl or php script that allows us to add the users to a remote primary mysql/mariadb database server, this would allow for any number of separate smtp, pop, imap and webmail servers, with a central netapp or emc back end storage, that wont need DA installed on them, because its a simple call to INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE entry on domain/users.
Yes, I accept this way will result in not knowing your users maildirs capacity, but that is easily seen in imap clients, even roundcube.
The problem with all your eggs in one basket means if some dill runs a runaway broken cgi/php script and sends the load through rood, they have knocked out not only all other web, but DNS, and mail.
we used this method with our broadband users at previous ISP, and is very efficient, you can upgrade any component in the chain without taking any mail offline, all DA needs to do is allow for that script to call on add/del/suspend/whatever, so we can customize, and use existing databases and existing software, exim is horrible, its slow, its resource hoggy, its, abhorrent and should go the way of qmail, out loadsplitting/semi-HA postfix/dovecot/mysql has been used for 10 years, the only change we made 2 years ago was replace mysql for mariadb.
It is not rocket science, its is 2016, how horrible it is to still have everything on one server.
could this please be given serious consideration, it wont be for everybody, but the medium to large players out there would kill for this.
Thank you
It would be awesome to have the ability to configure mail via a database.
Even ifs something like, when setting up server, a setting "disable local mail" which would offer enter a call to, even a perl or php script that allows us to add the users to a remote primary mysql/mariadb database server, this would allow for any number of separate smtp, pop, imap and webmail servers, with a central netapp or emc back end storage, that wont need DA installed on them, because its a simple call to INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE entry on domain/users.
Yes, I accept this way will result in not knowing your users maildirs capacity, but that is easily seen in imap clients, even roundcube.
The problem with all your eggs in one basket means if some dill runs a runaway broken cgi/php script and sends the load through rood, they have knocked out not only all other web, but DNS, and mail.
we used this method with our broadband users at previous ISP, and is very efficient, you can upgrade any component in the chain without taking any mail offline, all DA needs to do is allow for that script to call on add/del/suspend/whatever, so we can customize, and use existing databases and existing software, exim is horrible, its slow, its resource hoggy, its, abhorrent and should go the way of qmail, out loadsplitting/semi-HA postfix/dovecot/mysql has been used for 10 years, the only change we made 2 years ago was replace mysql for mariadb.
It is not rocket science, its is 2016, how horrible it is to still have everything on one server.
could this please be given serious consideration, it wont be for everybody, but the medium to large players out there would kill for this.
Thank you
