Bret Baptist writes: > To do SSL with IMAP and POP3 you need to use stunnel right now. That's actually an advantage. Why build SSL support into every program when it can be handled be a single program? Separation is good both from an engineering and security standpoint. > It does take a little beefy hardware to run the whole thing > efficiently. I guess this really depends on how many concurrent > connections you have. With us, we have a couple hundred people > checking their mail per second. I think you would need some beefy hardware for any mail system with several hundred concurrent users. > Webmail is very fast; direct db access. That is very nice. The typical webmail solution is an IMAP wrapper. While good from an engineering standpoint, it ends up having abysmal performance. > Very easy to scale up. Just add a high powered db backend, and > clustered frontends and you are set to scale to almost any capability. It is easy to scale the performance, but not the capacity. A big disadvantage is that you can't easily grow a MySQL database. The total available space must be available on one machine. I appreciate your comments. They give me an incentive to check out dbmail. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list