[TriLUG] Backing up mail and MySql

Scott G. Hall ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net
Thu Dec 23 12:44:38 EST 2004


I recently posted a similar response -- what pop/imap deamon do other
users recommend? -- to the Xandros user forum.  See bottom for it:

On 12/23/04 11:23 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:10:24 -0500, Tanner Lovelace
>   <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:48:31 -0500, Rick DeNatale
>>   <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 1) Mail - Right now my mail spools are in mailbox format. I'm thinking 
>>> that I should consider conversion to another format such as maildir. 
>>> What's involved in such a conversion? Which mail chain programs are 
>>> sensitive to the mailbox format and need to be reconfigured. Heres what
>>> I'm using now: procmail - I think this needs re-configuring fetchmail -
>>> I think that it doesn't care it goes through procmail sendmail - ? 
>>> uwimap/pop daemon - ?
>> 
>> 
>> I recently switched from WU-Imapd to Cyrus Imapd which stores messages in
>> something similar to maildir.  I wasn't using the standard mbox format on
>> UW-Imapd, but their higher performance mbx format (which, btw, is what the
>> TriLUG imap server uses) and yet Cyrus Imap blows it away for performance.
>> I would highly recommend looking into cyrus.  It is more complicated to
>> setup, but it's already packaged in both Debian (sarge) and Mandrake.
>> 
>> Cheers, Tanner
> 
> The freshmeat web page on Cyrus indicates that it's generally intended to
> be run in a sealed system which users don't normally log into.
> 
> In my case I've got one machine on which I run a variety of services like
> mail, apache, etc. I also log into this machine as a workstation. How much
> of an issue is this for running Cyrus? or for migrating?
> 
> This is for my home/family lan. My wife and I are the only users, apart
> for some accounts set up for particular applications.
> 

Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:33 am
Post subject: Re: pop3d deamon for spooled mailboxes

Debian Unsupported has quite a number of "pop3d" packages to choose from.
Here are the ones that get listed in apt-get:

UW-pop3d/imapd - Univ. Washinton's package; supposed to be the definitive
package, and the one used by Solaris, AIX and UnixWare; they are the
author's of the RFC's on the subject; I still get an "authentication error"
when I use root to access it -- and their website has no documentation on
how to configure it

Cyrus - Carnegie Mellon's package; does not access mbox format (ie.
/var/spool/mail/{$USERNAME}), but rather uses mh style directories

Dovecot - Supposed to be a UW- and Courier- replacement, but with security
in mind; main one pushed by Debian for Debian releases

solid-pop3d - I can't find anything out about it -- the home and docs are
in Russian

qmail-pop3d/imapd - Part of the QMail packages; I found a doc that says
that qmail-pop3d can use sendmail instead of qmail, but all other docs say
no, depends on qmail

Courier Suite - mostly IMAPd, not POPd; again an overall package; main one
pushed for Slackware and FreeBSD

mailutils - GNU MailUtils package, designed to be used as mail server for
virtual users over the web; suitable for a web-host provider

LibRoxen - Roxen Challenger webserver mail server; handles virtual
mailboxes suitable for a web-host provider (not for local users and maildir
format)

I still don't know which one to choose, but I think I am leaning toward
Dovecot.  I need your input on this.
------------end of post------------

I went Dovecot myself.

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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net



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