Phil Howard skrev:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Jerry dovecot.user@seibercom.net wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:03:00 +0200 Rainer rainer.frey@inxmail.de articulated:
Well, it leaves out the *one tricky part* of using a flat file database for virtual users with dovecot and postfix: there is no common format that both understand directly.
I have not been following this thread as closely as I probably should have; however, I was wondering what the OP's problem was with using MySQL? It would greatly simplify the job of constructing and maintaining databases. It is even possible to create tables that both Postfix and Dovecot can use jointly if desired. I use MySQL for several projects, and would never go back to using 'flat files" unless there was no other way to achieve my goal.
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.
Have you looked into Postfix Admin? http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/
It might be a good solution for you. I'm using it for a a growing database of users and I'm very happy with it. The setup with postfix, dovecot and mysql was quite straight forward, and this interface requires no particular technical know-how.
Should be perfect if you can do the initial setup, then just give the admisn the password to this interface.
Arne