Re: vpopmail and sendmail

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Re: vpopmail and sendmail

Res writes:
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> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
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>>> I've no doubt it could work somehow, if someone wanted to spend time on
>>> it, something most companies are not too thrilled about, not when there
>>> is a simple way of doing it that works well already, the waste of one box
>>> extra for the qmail 'mail router' is justified as it has the primary mail
>>> databases on it :)
>>
>> BTW during reading vpopmail sources&documentation somehow I have
>> acquired some doubts if it can work as POP server *without* qmail help.
>> [ I have not read more because I had read "more than enough" for me]
>
> Yes, this is why it requires inter7 and Sendmail to work "together"
> so default configs of both can be told to work with each other,
> It's a case of modifying both, and doing it manualy apart from being time
> consuming, introduces problems upon upgrades, in both vpopmail and
> sendmail what code is there we change today to get it to work might not be
> there in a week, and in a week we may need to upgrade program X because of
> perhaps a nasty bug or security issue, so we start to redo everyting again
> over and over. Upgrading is a PITA when you have complicated setups, its
> why some telcos I knoew run early 8.13 sendmail with cyrus because it
> breaks if tehy try upgrade :)

I *may* provide some "sendmail side" hints but do not expect me to
invest more time in attemtps to understand qmail and vpopmail's
"qmail readiness" :-)

It may be interesting to create sendmail "map" (in sendmail sources)
capable to check *via pam* (pluggable authentication module) if user
exists. Mainly because it would be (IMHO) something useful *not only*
for vpopmail integration :-)

> you see why its simpler to have sendmail up front passing to qmail as
> backend :)

It is a much better short/medium perspective solution.
In long perspective (IMHO) you should *slowly* prepare yourself to
migration to another soft.

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Re: vpopmail and sendmail

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