vm-pop3d bugs?

well right now I am confused which way to go, are DA about to abandon vm-pop3d? or are they upgrading to the T7 version?
 
I'm not sure but my install is only a week old and it's running T6, i'll try updating to T7 and see what happens...

Steve
 
For now I have upgraded my boxes to T7 but would still want to know what is decided on the standard now.
 
Hello,

T7 for the most part is the same thing as 1.1.7f-T6-DA.

http://www.wcug.wwu.edu/~reed/lists/vm-pop3d-announce/msg00009.html

The SO_REUSEADDR and the "pop3_readline() rewritten" were actually contributed by myself from comments from clients on our forum.

A client recently pointed me to Dovecot which might be the answer to everything. I'm currently trying to learn how it works to see if/how I can adapt it to the DA setup.

John
 
Ok no probs...if i install dove cote will it use the current e-mail accounts??

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nm think i'll just wait till someone comes up with a fix...lol

Steve
 
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"Dovecot can work with standard mbox and maildir formats"

John if you do the change if possible can we move to a maildir system?
 
Yes, that's the plan. But it will also allow backwards compatibility with mbox. I'll get the mbox version working first (to setup the authentication part), then flip the switch to maildir ;) (likely more to it than that, but it's the plan)

John
 
How would you go about configuring it to work with mbox?? i'm very new to this i have no idea where to start...i can install it but not configure it..lol.. :o
 
John,

In what way do you plan on changing authentication?

I may be the only voice begging you to not switch to using databases for verification, but I'd hate to see email go down because of mysql difficulties. And please no "active directory" :) .

What I like most about DA is it's usage of flat files. Much easier to keep track of and to fix if necessary.

Jeff
 
Jeff,

I meant setup the auth in the dovecot program to match the DA auth setup ;)

I wouldn't dare start messing with the current format on DA machines ;)

John
 
Could anyone help me setup dove cote to work on my server? as most of my customers are on my back now :( why can't they just use imap lol...ah and if poss could someone send me a copy of the build.sh script in the customapache folder...i accidentally deleted mine :(

Steve.
 
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Chrysalis said:
this is good news :)
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ports/mail/dovecot
indeed! ;)

Let's hope it's way better than Courrier, because I don't really see the point in moving to alpha software instead of using tried and tested ones. The mbox argument is weak, all we need is a conversion script to run ;P.
 
Dovecot vs. Courier

I don't have much experience with Courier, but according to most of the users who have tried both, Dovecot is supposed to be much faster, since it indexes all messages on the server. This is most noticeable with larger mailboxes. It also uses less system resources (memory and CPU). And it is quite stable, even given the current alpha software.

http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2004-May/003350.html

Incidentally, it is also the standard IMAP/POP server included by default with all current Red Hat Linux distributions, including Fedora, CentOS, etc.

Alan
 
What I like most about DA is it's usage of flat files. Much easier to keep track of and to fix if necessary.
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I couldn't agree more.

We are seeing mucho webmail problems with users with a large amount of data in there mailbox. Its very slow for them to open and when they do it seems to slow down the whole server. Moving to maildir would be a life saver for us.

Being an ISP we are more concerned with email hosting then webhosting. Nearly a 1000 email accounts and some users have had there email address up to 10 years. Lots of email traffic.

Matthew
 
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