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

[Phil Howard]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jerry <dovecot.user at seibercom.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:18:41 -0400
> Phil <ttiphil at gmail.com> articulated:
>
> > 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.
>
> Excuse my ignorance here; however, it appears that what you are trying
> to accomplish is exceedingly harder to implement than simply using SQL
> for the job. The are numerous GUIs to administer SQL with. Personally,
> I use "phpMyAdmin" with MySQL and have found it quite a good fit. There
> are several others of course, and other flavors of SQL that you might
> want to investigate.
>
> I have personally set up MySQL with phpMyAdmin for some rather
> technically challenged individuals and they have not experienced any
> problems that I am aware of. There is also a PostfixAdmin
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/> that might simplify
> your life. I don't use it myself; however, I have heard it is quite
> good.
>

The decision to go non-SQL and non-LDAP has already been made.  Only if
nothing else can work will it be re-opened.  The non-SQL/non-LDAP approach
is what my current investigation is on.