Re: dbmail configuration
Claas Kähler <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Apr 2020 13:53:08 +0200
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--===============7919866311177400100== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_6DDF4391-0C05-41C2-9F4C-AB7EBCB1D62E" --Apple-Mail=_6DDF4391-0C05-41C2-9F4C-AB7EBCB1D62E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear David, do your self a favor and run! Do not use DBMail!=20 Once the idea was great, but there has been no (visible) progress for = years now! The community is dying and Harald's reaction to your request = also suggests that there is no interest in attracting new people to the = project. Instead, I would recommend you to use e.g. plain Postfix or take a look = at Mailcow ( http://mailcow.email ).=20 Cheers, Claas > Am 03.04.2020 um 21:21 schrieb David in Denver <[email protected]>: >=20 > Installing 3.2.3 on debian 9, postgres 9.6.17 >=20 > WHY WHY WHY! is the documentation STILL so incomplete? Why hasn't = anyone put a COMPLETE minimum working example of master.cf, main.cf, = sql-recipients.cf, sql-virtual_mailbox_domains.cf, = sql-virtual_mailbox_maps.cf, and pg_hba.conf? I've looked and can't = find anything for 3.2.3 -- oh, there's stuff out there that is outdated = by a decade, but nothing current that I can find. >=20 > Do you have to start the imapd or other services, or do they start on = their own? what's the difference if I use ldap vs. sql as a driver? if = I use pgsql as a hash to the postgres tables, does that mean I should = use ldap as the hash instead? chroot default changed to yes from no, = does that mean the smtp line needs to be changed or the dbmail-lmtp line = at the end of master.cf? >=20 > What's this 'compatability' line? set at 2? What does that mean, oh, = look, no documentation. If I'm using old config files from version 2, = should it be changed to something else? >=20 > Why isn't there an install script that downloads installs and = configures postfix, postgresql and dbmail (or other combinations)? = Millions of man-hours to write awesome software, loads of documentation, = and as nebulous and unusable as ever. This is the reason people don't = want to migrate away from Microsuck operating systems. >=20 > RE: 3.2.3/INSTALL, part 2. ..."Edit the dbmail.conf file and set = everything to your likings." What? what does that mean? Why not = provide a MWE of what dbmail.conf should look like and explain anything = that shouldn't be left default. >=20 > In my case, I can't insert users using dbmail-users; and you don't = have any troubleshooting FAQs on your website or on the Install docs. = Maybe, because of my frustration over this, I've missed something, but = I've spent 3 whole days on this ONE issue. Someone (group) really needs = to work on an install script. >=20 > I need to be put back on the mail server. > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.nfg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail = <https://lists.nfg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail> --Apple-Mail=_6DDF4391-0C05-41C2-9F4C-AB7EBCB1D62E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=3D"">Dear = David,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">do your self = a favor and run! Do not use DBMail! </div><div class=3D"">Once the = idea was great, but there has been no (visible) progress for years now! = The community is dying and Harald's reaction to your request also = suggests that there is no interest in attracting new people to the = project.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D""><div = class=3D"">Instead, I would recommend you to use e.g. plain Postfix or = take a look at Mailcow ( <a href=3D"http://mailcow.email" = class=3D"">http://mailcow.email</a> ). </div></div><div = class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">Cheers,</div><div = class=3D"">Claas</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = class=3D""><div><br class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div = class=3D"">Am 03.04.2020 um 21:21 schrieb David in Denver <<a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" = class=3D"">[email protected]</a>>:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D""><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D"">Installing = 3.2.3 on debian 9, postgres 9.6.17</div><div style=3D"font-style: = normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; = font-size: 12pt;" class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D"">WHY WHY = WHY! is the documentation STILL so incomplete? Why hasn't anyone = put a COMPLETE minimum working example of master.cf, main.cf, = sql-recipients.cf, sql-virtual_mailbox_domains.cf, = sql-virtual_mailbox_maps.cf, and pg_hba.conf? I've looked and = can't find anything for 3.2.3 -- oh, there's stuff out there that is = outdated by a decade, but nothing current that I can find.</div><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" = class=3D"">Do you have to start the imapd or other services, or do they = start on their own? what's the difference if I use ldap vs. sql as a = driver? if I use pgsql as a hash to the postgres tables, does that = mean I should use ldap as the hash instead? chroot default changed = to yes from no, does that mean the smtp line needs to be changed or the = dbmail-lmtp line at the end of master.cf?</div><div style=3D"font-style: = normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; = font-size: 12pt;" class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D"">What's this = 'compatability' line? set at 2? What does that mean, oh, look, no = documentation. If I'm using old config files from version 2, = should it be changed to something else?</div><div style=3D"font-style: = normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; = text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; = font-size: 12pt;" class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D"">Why isn't = there an install script that downloads installs and configures postfix, = postgresql and dbmail (or other combinations)? Millions of = man-hours to write awesome software, loads of documentation, and as = nebulous and unusable as ever. This is the reason people don't = want to migrate away from Microsuck operating systems.</div><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" = class=3D"">RE: 3.2.3/INSTALL, part 2. ..."Edit the dbmail.conf = file and set everything to your likings." What? what does that = mean? Why not provide a MWE of what dbmail.conf should look like = and explain anything that shouldn't be left default.</div><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" = class=3D"">In my case, I can't insert users using dbmail-users; and you = don't have any troubleshooting FAQs on your website or on the Install = docs. Maybe, because of my frustration over this, I've missed = something, but I've spent 3 whole days on this ONE issue. Someone = (group) really needs to work on an install script.</div><div = style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=3D""><br = class=3D""></div><div style=3D"font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; = text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: = none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" = class=3D"">I need to be put back on the mail server.</div><span = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; = display: inline !important;" = class=3D"">_______________________________________________</span><br = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><span = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; = display: inline !important;" class=3D"">DBmail mailing list</span><br = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: = start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=3D"">[email protected]</a><br = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: = 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=3D""><a = href=3D"https://lists.nfg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail" = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" = class=3D"">https://lists.nfg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail</a></div><= /blockquote></div><br class=3D""></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_6DDF4391-0C05-41C2-9F4C-AB7EBCB1D62E-- --===============7919866311177400100== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KREJtYWlsIG1h aWxpbmcgbGlzdApEQm1haWxAbGlzdHMubmZnLm5sCmh0dHBzOi8vbGlzdHMubmZnLm5sL2NnaS1i aW4vbWFpbG1hbi9saXN0aW5mby9kYm1haWwK --===============7919866311177400100==--