Top Stories

Access to Information

  • 1901-13
    Jan 20th, 2013

    TypePad blocked in China

    It looks as though China has blocked its citizens from accesing Typepad-hosted blogs. The only way that ...
  • 1901-12
    Jan 20th, 2013

    Just a Suggestion

    I’m not sure how scalable this approach would be in a library setting, but Zuggest is certainly an ...

Latest News View All News »

2301-4

New Pew Study on the Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life

· Feb 28th, 2013 · 0 Comment
Pew has released a new study, Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life. The good is we, libraries, rank highly as a metaphor. The question/challenge/opportunity(!) is then how relevant ...
Read More
2301-3

Down the creek and with a paddle

· Feb 27th, 2013 · 0 Comment
Shirky’s not a librarian, but I think his metaphor rings loud and true… We’re positioned–or at least we could be–to offer some guidance down this stretch of the river, as ...
Read More
2301-2

Delicious Library and Ottobib

· Feb 26th, 2013 · 0 Comment
I picked up a new Macbook last week at the campus bookstore (splurged on the black one and snuck in on the Nano giveaway) and have been playing around with some of the new features ...
Read More
2201-34

Why not library content too?

· Feb 24th, 2013 · 0 Comment
Doh! Caught sleeping. I didn’t realize that del.icio.us made it so easy to embed your bookmarks into a web page or the sidebar of your blog. I was poking through the del.iicio.us ...
Read More
2201-33

IBM’s dogear

· Feb 23rd, 2013 · 0 Comment
Always curious about the inner workings of big corporations, I was enthused to hear of IBM’s growing interest in social software. It was actually Gene Smith’s del.icio.ius feed ...
Read More

This bulk email sender is currently developed for SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL), Postfix, Courier-IMAP/Authlib, Maildrop, Spam Assassin and Clam Anti Virus. What this project is actually capable of is left to the imagination.

Postfix, Courier, IMAP and Spam Assassin can all be configured completely by configuration files without any involvement with any database whatsoever.

What it all boils down to is this. Do the considered MTA, IMAP/POP3 server, mail filter agent and spam filter all have the ability to perform database lookups for authenticating email users? If so, are those databases MySQL or PostgreSQL? If the answer is yes to all, then perhaps support can be implemented in the future. The key here is capability of the service to do database lookups.