[Dovecot] Feature Requests

[Jonathan Vanasco]

On Aug 14, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:34 -0400, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
>> a - Sqlite support
> For userdb/passdb? Why is it useful?

SQLite gives you much of the functionality of mysql/postgres support  
right now without the one big caveat -- its a library (not a daemon),  
so email doesn't go down if mysql/postgres does

1/2 of the people using dovecot will never run into this as an issue,  
as they're likely just using mysql/postgres for development/support use.

but if you're running a webapp that ties into a mysql/postgres server  
that is also hosting the imap/mta accounts , then you can run into  
serious issues if your webapp gets slammed with traffic

you also run into problems if you need to upgrade your sql server, or  
anything odd/bad happens to it

essentially, i want the flexibility of sql without having to worry  
about 2 daemons .