Re: [Dovecot] Question about the dovecot debian package

Florian Schnabel wrote:

am planing transition to dovecot right now ... just noticed dovecot debian package would install mysql ... it probably depens on just any database and uses ymsql by default .. but anyway why does it need one ?

It does NOT need one. However, it _can_ use one (Postgress or MySQL... and even SQLite, when I finish testing my patch:) for user details (name, password, home dir, etc).

Requiring MySQL (even just the client libs) is some wrong-headedness in the packaging, though they may not see a clean alternative since I believe currently the SQL portion of Dovecot is not pluggable, but compiled in.

-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net