What are the advantages?

Scalability

Dbmail is as scalable as the database system used for storage.

Manageability

Dbmail can be managed by updating the relational database or directory service - without shell access.

Speed

Dbmail uses very efficient, database specific queries for retrieving mail information.

Security

Dbmail doesn't require filesystem access. It's as secure as the database and directory server used.

Flexibility.

Changes in a Dbmail system (adding of users, changing passwords etc.) are effective immediately. Users can be stored in the database, or managed separately in an LDAP server such as OpenLDAP or Active Directory.

older versions

Recent changes

master branch

login_disabled option before starttls for pop3

2015-02-18

login_disabled option before starttls for pop3

fix segfault

2015-01-11

fix segfault

fix typo in rules [debian]

2014-12-28

fix typo in rules [debian]

3.2 stable branch

login_disabled option before starttls for pop3

2015-02-18

login_disabled option before starttls for pop3

bump 3.2.3

2015-01-25

bump 3.2.3

fix segfault

2015-01-11

fix segfault

Blog

What's up with max_db_connections?

2013-12-05

Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL

2012-09-13

Pruning the dbmail_headervalue table

2010-02-13

Available

DBMail is primarily developed and tested on the GNU Linux and FreeBSD platforms. Users have also reported successfull deployments on OpenSolaris, NetBSD and OSX.

DBMail is released under the GNU Public Licence (version 2).