About:
The DBMAIL package replaces the normal UNIX mailing system. All email and user data is stored in a database. You can create an unlimited number of email accounts, which can be checked using the POP3 or IMAP protocol. Users can maintain their own set of email addresses. It is more scalable, more secure, and faster than traditional mail systems. DBMAIL has storage drivers for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and it has authentication drivers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and LDAP.

Author:
Eelco van Beek [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.25/10.00 (8 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.dbmail.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://dbmail.org/index.php?page=download
Debian package:
http://debian.nfgd.net/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.ic-s.nl/websvn/listing.php?repname=DBMail

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Network Environment]		IP :: IPv4
[Operating System]		Unix
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Communications :: Email, Communications :: Email :: Post-Office, Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP, Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	2.2.7	02-Nov-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	2.1.7	31-Jul-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Old Stable	2.0.11	24-Nov-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Still a beta, this is not a stable product
by lelik76 - Mar 20th 2007 02:52:25

Please keep in mind this program is very unstable and code quality is very low. It is impossible to install (a debian package) or run it. For example, debian installer fails to create user/group, and then choown fails during install. Log directories are created with invalid permissions. Once I rebuilt the package and installed it, it kept crashing (seg fault). If you look in a source, they have following fragment at start of each daemon:
serverConfig_t config;
int result;

g_mime_init(0);
openlog(PNAME, LOG_PID, LOG_MAIL);

result = serverparent_getopt(&config, "IMAP", argc, argv);

the serverparent_getopt calls a function ClearConfig(config) , with following body:

void ClearConfig(serverConfig_t * config)
{
g_free(config->listenSockets);
g_strfreev(config->iplist);
memset(config, 0, sizeof(serverConfig_t));
}

well, as you may see "serverConfig_t config" variable is an uninitialized stack variable, no wonder this thing crashes.

I stopped looking after that. The product is too immature for any use, despite "production/stable" claim. Avoid any serious use for now.

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[»] Those having trouble with dbmail
by Tim Thomas - Dec 5th 2001 16:17:40

I've been using this since v.03 with no problems. The one big place to look is /etc/postfix/master.cf. Make sure you have a line like:
dbmail unix - n n - - pipe
flags= user=dbmail:dbmail argv=/usr/local/bin/dbmail-smtp -d ${reci
pient}

also make sure that your dbmail-smtp executable is where you've pointed the config file. I can't testify to the IMAP client, and I think it's still under development in any case.

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[»] Need your help!
by BillKwong - Nov 16th 2001 03:10:14

I'm trying to bulid a mail system with postfix & dbmail,the mail from client now can write to mysql.but the client cann't recieve mail, if I use IMAP's pops damon to provide POP3 service,it will tell me no mail,if use the dbmail-pop3d,the client application will tell me cann't connect to server,who can help me?THX

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[»] What is he doing?????
by John - Jun 14th 2000 13:15:39

Is this product still being developed?????
I really want it and get it to work, but the current version doesn't work for me.

The author doesn't respond and I can't seem to get on the mailing list. :

John

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[»] Re: What is he doing?????
by Rick - Apr 10th 2001 10:06:21

John,

Have a look at @MAIL. It looks like it does everything that DMMAIL does, and more.

Rick

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[»] Re: What is he doing?????
by Philipp Dreimann - Aug 1st 2001 18:28:58

dbmail is fine :) it works for me with the newest cvs great.

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[»] Re: What is he doing?????
by Thi517 - Nov 1st 2001 03:23:21


> dbmail is fine :)
> it works for me with the newest cvs
> great.

how did u get it to work, did u do like what it said in the
INSTALL or you did something else?


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[»] Why my dbmail cann't work
by BillKwong - Nov 12th 2001 03:37:01

I finished installation without any problem,but the mail system still store mail to /var/mail not MySQL,why,I need your Help.

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[»] what happened to it??
by soffi nagli - Jan 2nd 2000 17:54:21

I'm very interested in looking at this product, but the website doesn't respond, neither does download. Plus the author doesn't respond to e-mails :(

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[»] Need your help!!
by BillKwong - Nov 12th 2001 03:46:50

Hello,all! I am a student from China,I try to bulid a Email system with DBmail.I finished install postfix and MySQL and I can use Outlook or other Application to send & receive Email.So I try to install DBmail,after compiled, I do everything by the "NSTALL" in DBmail's file.but I found that my mail still write to /var/mail,in my thinking,it will write to the database "dbmail" in Mysql,why? I need your help. My system configuration: RedHat Linux 7.1 Postfix-20010202-4 MySQL 3.23.36-1 dbmail-1.0rc2.tgz

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[»] Re: Need your help!!
by Gil - Feb 18th 2004 21:50:17

Its sad, but I think this projet is dead. No more answers from the author. The documentation included is less than poor. The online documentation is fading on dead sites. The product is good but lacks just a few corrections. Its a shame. I Have spended SEVERAL days trying to make dbmail work in a apropriate way. I am half way of getting it done. But I cant find any more help. I am just about of kiking it away.

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[»] Re: Need your help!!
by Aaron Stone - Feb 21st 2004 08:23:47


> Its sad, but I think this projet is dead.
> No more answers from the author.
Alive and well and you're welcome to join the mailing list. As with most "the author doesn't respond, it must be dead" posts, the author is too busy working on the project to respond to "are you dead yet?" emails that just waste his time.

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[»] Re: Need your help!!
by Tim - Apr 28th 2004 12:56:33

Agreed... join the damn mailing list (or even google for discussions). It is alive and well, Sieve support is being integrated, Aaron has written an LMTP daemon for lightning fast transfers, Exchange compatibility is slowly being added...

Basically, if you're not an experienced mail administrator, DBmail + Postfix may not be what you want. It is for large sites with many virtual users (I have a few hundred, with many aliases and a mail-to-forums gateway along with various automated hooks and Amavisd/Mailguard/Spsmassassin dual-MTA setup) and many domains, who are comfortable with keeping their database tuned and backed up, and want a central point of administration for email.

And for that purpose, it beats the piss out of all competitors by a country mile. If you're looking for something like 'Exchange without the bugs' or 'a database storage backend for Postfix/Cyrus/Qmail' then DBmail is what you want. 4 release candidates for 2.0 in 1 month, and you think it's a dead project? Sitss with half a terabyte of mail figuring out how to mirror their backend, and you think there are more stable, featureful competitors?

I beg to differ with that assessment. DBmail is worth the trouble of a Google search and reading the docs, thanks much. It is alive and well.

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