Administrate vpopmial with qmail

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote:

> What is the major things to consider when the
administrate vpopmail with
> qmail.

Such an open-ended question cannot be answered. You may as
well ask "what
do I need to look for when managing a mail server?"

What are your concerns? What is the server being used for?
What problems
have you found? etc etc etc


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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote:

> thanks for guide me. by the way i'm using qmail server
with vpopmail so, i'm
> concerning if i want to take a mail boxes backup, how
will i do it.

You mean a backup MX or just backing up the email?

Normally vpopmail stores email for xyz.com under
/home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com/


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A. Khattri wrote:
> You mean a backup MX or just backing up the email?
> 
> Normally vpopmail stores email for xyz.com under
> /home/vpopmail/domains/xyz.com/
> 
Are you sure that's the default? I don't remember telling
vpopmail to do anything out of 
the ordinary and my virtual domain mails are under
/var/vpopmail/domains.

I like that about vpopmail... it just maintains pretty much
the same folder structure that 
  a regular mail user on the system would have, so I can go
right to it.

About the only thing I don't like about vpopmail is that it
uses mysql to store its 
user/domain information. So anytime mysql has one of its
"problematic" upgrades, I risk 
losing all mail service until it's resolved. Seems like
they could have just used BDB or 
even a flat file for that stuff, though I suppose the latter
might be hella slow.

Anyway, to the OP I would say, I just have a nightly
rsnaphot backup running that grabs 
large chunks of /var (along with all of /etc, /home, and
some of /usr). So all my mail is 
backed up without doing anything fancy (I also backup mysql
and postgres in there). My 
worst case would be losing the drive at about eleven or
twelve at night, which would lose 
me a whole day's mail.

Of course, then there's the time it would take me to get a
replacement mail server 
responding (ugh) but that a whole other story.

b

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