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author | Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-23 16:05:39 +0000 |
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committer | Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-11-23 16:05:39 +0000 |
commit | 0e56099a89b8128eb862e51aeefc1b3093710cb7 (patch) | |
tree | 2cd790199f8a0361df850038a1a9c3b6d270c771 /mail/dbmail22/pkg-descr | |
parent | 41f0c59422fe787ed95f0ea058ff6f9dfd014b06 (diff) | |
download | ports-0e56099a89b8128eb862e51aeefc1b3093710cb7.tar.gz ports-0e56099a89b8128eb862e51aeefc1b3093710cb7.zip |
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diff --git a/mail/dbmail22/pkg-descr b/mail/dbmail22/pkg-descr index 2c03d30b6ea9..5c1648e0e4a6 100644 --- a/mail/dbmail22/pkg-descr +++ b/mail/dbmail22/pkg-descr @@ -1,22 +1,24 @@ -Dbmail is the name of a group of programs that enable the possiblilty of storing -and retrieving mail messages from a database (currently MySQL or PostgreSQL). +Dbmail is the name of a group of programs that enable the possibility of +storing and retrieving mail messages from a database (currently MySQL, +PostgreSQL or SQLite). -What are the advantages? - - * Scalability. - Dbmail is as scalable as the database that is used for the mail storage. - * Manageability. - Dbmail is based upon a database. Dbmail can be managed by changing - settings in the database (f.e. using PHP/Perl/SQL). - * Speed. - Dbmail uses very efficient, database specific queries for retrieving mail - information. This is much faster then parsing a filesystem. - * Security. - Dbmail has got nothing to do with the filesystem or interaction with other - programs in the Unix environment which need special permissions. Dbmail - is as secure as the database it's based upon. - * Flexibility. - Changes on a Dbmail system (adding of users, changing passwords etc.) are - effective immediately. +* Scalability. + Dbmail is as scalable as the database system that is used for the mail + storage. In theory millions of accounts can be managed using dbmail. One + could, for example, run 4 different servers with the pop3 daemon each + connecting to the same database (cluster) server. +* Manageability. + Dbmail is based upon a database. Dbmail can be managed by changing settings + in the database (f.e. using PHP/Perl/SQL), without needing shell access. +* Speed. + Dbmail uses very efficient, database specific queries for retrieving mail + information. This is much faster then parsing a filesystem. +* Security. + Dbmail has got nothing to do with the filesystem or interaction with other + programs in the Unix environment which need special permissions. Dbmail is + as secure as the database it's based upon. +* Flexibility. + Changes on a Dbmail system (adding of users, changing passwords etc.) are + effective immediately. WWW: http://www.dbmail.org/ |