On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:09, Farkas Levente wrote:

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I don't have much LDAP plans right now .. PAM would likely already have existing LDAP plugins, but you'd also have to keep the users in /etc/passwd then (without passwords). why??? that's what I realy would like to avoid!!! is there any reason?

PAM can only be used for checking if user/password matches, so it's missing the passwd information that Dovecot needs, at least home dir and uid. Although I had been thinking of making those some global settings in config file, so you could say homedir=/var/user/$USER$ uid=imapusers.

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I've been thinking about SQL database support from the beginning. However it'd probably be slower and require a bit more memory than with the current indexes.

ohh? I assume a database should have to be faster, but this is just an assumption...

That's mostly because of a few tricks that Dovecot does with it's index files that aren't really possible with SQL databases. Multiuser mailboxes which are modified a lot are one thing where they could be faster than Dovecot's index files because of better locking.

Besides, Dovecot's indexes could be called as a simple database..