[Dovecot] Using MySQL For Mailboxes?

[Egbert Jan van den Bussche]

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> Van: dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org 
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+egbert=vandenbussche.nl at dovecot.org] 
> Namens Bradley Giesbrecht
> Verzonden: maandag 8 maart 2010 17:06
> Aan: Carlos Mennens
> CC: Dovecot Mailing List
> Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Using MySQL For Mailboxes?
> 
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> On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> >> Dovecot supports looking up user information from MySQL, but not 
> >> actually storing mails there. If you really wanted to 
> store mails on 
> >> MySQL, you'd have to use dbmail instead of Dovecot.
> >
> > Is it even worth it with less than 500 users? I mean I 
> don't have any 
> > problems right now creating individual users and their home 
> > directories in Linux but I have never used MySQL for mail so can't 
> > differentiate the two. I guess I don't even know if this worth the 
> > effort to change my configuration especially if it involves 
> changing 
> > out my IMAP server for 'dbmail' which I know nothing about 
> until you 
> > mentioned it.
> 
> 
> No one will be able to answer what something is worth to you.
> 
> If your 500 users are mostly email only then you will probably enjoy  
> storing email addresses, passwords, paths to mailboxes, 
> quotes etc...  
> in mysql.
> 
> This is how you can use mysql with dovecot. The emails will still be  
> stored on a file system in one of the popular mailbox formats like  
> mbox, maildir, etc....
> 
> // Brad

You might have a look at PostfixAdmin. 

Egbert 


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