[Dovecot] Berkeley DB with Dovecot

[Jerry]

On Sun, 20 May 2012 06:35:46 -0500
Stan Hoeppner articulated:

>On 5/20/2012 6:19 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> I have a friend who is preparing to set up a small Postfix/Dovecot
>> mail system. There are only approximately 25 users. He wants to use
>> Berkeley DB in a similar fashion to the way Postfix does. I told him
>> I do not believe Dovecot supports that. I could not find any
>> documentation relating to it.
>> 
>> 1) Does Dovecot support Berkeley DB?
>
>No:  http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase

I have all ready read that.

>> 2) Are their any plans to incorporate that feature into Dovecot? It
>
>[Timo answers here]

Are you ordering Timo to answer or giving him the option? In any case,
I am sure he will appreciate you leaving him space to enter his
comments.

>> seems like it could potentially be a very useful feature. I have used
>> it myself when a full blown MySQL configuration seemed like over-kill
>> on other small projects.
>
>SQLite is the appropriate solution for this scenario.

Requires loading another application when it is not necessary. Most
scenarios I have come across have Berkeley DB all ready installed. In
fact, it is an extremely useful tool for checking that things work as
expected under Postfix prior to migrating to a full blown SQL database.
By the way, I was informed that MySQL is installed on the system in
question; however, my friend was advised against using it at the
present time. Details NOT available.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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