Mikel King wrote:
> I just have a couple of hopefully quick questions...My konundrum is
> that I have been tasked to develope my ISP's new email server platform,
> and well I am seriously leaning in exim's direction.
Good decision
> 1. Is it possible to define on a case by case basis the method of
> storage for a perticular user (email addy)?
If you mean something like
user1@yourdomain -> /some/maildir/folder/
user2@yourdomain -> /some/mailbox
Yes!
> 2. Does it work with the builtin vacation (you know the .forward,
> .vacation.db & .vacation.msg)?
What you mean?
Exim has a built-in vacation (autoreply) transport.
> 3. Is it possible to store (well anythin is possible but has anyone
> done it already...) the entirety of exim config in a mysql db? I
> shall ellaborate: I want to be able to store domain names, email
> addresses w/ user profile,
> virtusertable/aliases et cettera in the db.
Yes, many people do it, you can get nearly anything from databases.
> 4. (last question) has anyone ever converted from passwd file to
> mysql while maintaining the users' current passwords?
Yes.
