[Dovecot] best choice of user database file to work with postfix

[Phil Howard]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Jerry <dovecot.user at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:03:00 +0200
> Rainer <rainer.frey at inxmail.de> articulated:
>
> > Well, it leaves out the *one tricky part* of using a flat file
> > database for virtual users with dovecot and postfix: there is no
> > common format that both understand directly.
>
> I have not been following this thread as closely as I probably should
> have; however, I was wondering what the OP's problem was with using
> MySQL? It would greatly simplify the job of constructing and
> maintaining databases. It is even possible to create tables that both
> Postfix and Dovecot can use jointly if desired. I use MySQL for several
> projects, and would never go back to using 'flat files" unless there
> was no other way to achieve my goal.
>

The administration is going to be handed off to less technical people, and
my goal is to mimize the number of elements in this.  It's not about MySQL
itself ... it's about not running yet another server/daemon.