[Dovecot] Looking for plugin docs

Łukasz Mierzwa prymitive at pcserwis.net
Fri Jun 15 23:57:28 EEST 2007


Friday 15 of June 2007 22:45:38 Rajkumar S napisał(a):
> On 6/16/07, Łukasz Mierzwa <prymitive at pcserwis.net> wrote:
> > To spam this ml more I must say that per user db is not that good idea
>
> I must confess that I got this idea from Zimbra. I was just curious as
> to why they went for this instead of the obvious one table for all
> users. I will of course run some benchmark and then only choose the
> final design.

Speed is good, but what about security? You would need to create new db when 
creating new user, if userdb is not in mysql than You would need to connect 
to it with priviliges to create new db (quite high priviliges I think). 
Also I have no idea why this would be faster than per user tables.

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Łukasz Mierzwa


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