RE: [SM-PLUGINS] What is the status of vadmin 1.02 and Squirelmail 1.4.0

[ME <du...@pa...>]

A general comment:
When I first started using SM, I though use of MySQL or PostgreSQL seemed
a bit of an overkill, and wondered why would anyone want to do this?

After migrating over to it about 3 weeks ago, and then rewriting the sasql
plugin to use more of the advanced features like languages, locales, push
addressbook entries to whitelist, checkbox mass deletion from whitelist,
purge all whitelist, purge all blacklist, and other items.... I can say
this:

use of a sql backend for spamassassin, SM prefs, and SM addressbook rocks!
It saves so much work in coding file-based access and all of the problems
associated with that, *and* it works much better in enterprise-level use
of SM, since it is possible to fully load balance multiple SM servers that
share a single replicated *SQL DB permitting a great degree of fault
tolerance and solve so many other problems.

If you have not yet used the *SQL based storage of settings,
addressbookand spamassassin stuff, try it!

If you are a coder of SM plugins, use of a DB can really save you from
writing code that the DB will do for you. File locking? Hah! Dealing with
updates to only one field, doing a "grep" for data in a file? the DB can
be searched. Remove an option, easy.

(As for sasql mods, I need to get more free time to check code security in
data-cleaning as a result of the mods and then send them to the original
author.)

-ME

> Blane,
>
>   Vadmin does not work as is with SM 1.4.  I, however, am working on a
> major re-write of the plugin in order to add support for MySQL backends
> to it.  I am half-way done with an initial cut, and part of my work will
> include adding support for SM 1.4.  This is no small undertaking (even
> though my additions have little to do with you if you're not using
> MySQL, sorry!), so I can't give you an ETA, but I'll try to get it out
> as soon as I can.
>
>   Cheers,
>
>      paul
>
>
>> I was wondering if anyone had upgraded to squirrelmail 1.4.0 on an
>> installation which uses the vadmin plugin. Does this plugin work with
>> the new version of squirrelmail, or have the developers redefined
>> everything in new locations in a manner which breaks the
> compatibility?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Blane R. Boynton
>>
>>
>>
>>
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