On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jerry dovecot.user@seibercom.net wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:18:41 -0400 Phil ttiphil@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.