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.
- Does Dovecot support Berkeley DB?
I have all ready read that.
- 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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