• Database: MySQL 4.1+ with innodb support, PostgreSQL 7.4+, or SQLite3
• Glib: (>= 2.8.0)
• GMime: (>= 2.1.19 or >= 2.2.0)
• Optional: libSieve (>= 2.2.1)
• Optional: LDAP such as OpenLDAP.

• [DBMAIL] section must have driver=mysql/pgsql and authdriver=sql/ldap.
• SENDMAIL must be now set in [DBMAIL] section, not in [SMTP]
• [SMTP] section is now [DELIVERY]
• [DBMAIL] section must have library_directory = /usr/local/lib/dbmail
• [POP] section must have MINSPARECHILDREN and MAXSPARECHILDREN
• [IMAP] section must have MAXCHILDREN, MINSPARECHILDREN and MAXSPARECHILDREN

Additionally, you can optionally add query_time_info, query_time_message, and query_time_warning to [DBMAIL]

• Use the migrate_from_2.0_to_2.2 script, then run dbmail-util -by

NOTE The migration script takes a LONG time to run. On a 36 GB PostgreSQL dbmail, the script took more than 5 hours to execute. You should be aware of this if upgrading a large mail store

Addition Author: Mike O'Brien
Date: March 3, 2006 Updated: October 10, 2006

• DBMail Builds easily on FBSD. Typically your minimum Dependencies are done like this:

cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql41-server && make install clean
cd /usr/ports/devel/glib20 && make install clean
cd /usr/ports/mail/gmime2 && make install clean // is actually gmime 2.2.3 these days

• You now have /usr/local installations of mysql, gmime & glib but GLIBc “iconv.h” is expected by

your dbmail in /usr/include as in most Linux variants & build fails with many warnings and errors.

• Solution is simple: just link from /usr to /usr/local as follows:

  ln -s /usr/local/include/iconv.h /usr/include/iconv.h 

Updated: Apr 5, 2008

edit your sources.list as described below and run:

# apt-get install dbmail dbmail-mysql dbmail-sieve 

Add to your sources.list:

#DBMail /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian.nfgd.net/debian/ stable main

dbmail-2.2.10 is now part of debian/testing (lenny)