[Dovecot] What best decision to make for flatfiles or SQL when I use Dovecot2 + Postfix together?

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:51:18AM -0700, terryjames9461 at mm.st wrote:
> 
> I'm a little confused about: to do that sharing-in-one-place, do I have
> to use SQL or can I use the flatfiles like passwd-db?   I think for sure
> someone already decided the best approach for this, and maybe I'm not
> understanding the logic to it.

Best approach is probably to store this in an ldap-directory. Then you
can easily have multi-master replication, and avoid any single point of
failure for your database. Both postfix and dovecot will be able to
lookup the data using ldap.


  -jf