On Tuesday 12 July 2005 14:55, Peter Evans wrote:

Tomi Hakala (tomi.hakala@clinet.fi) wrote:

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Jim Edwards wrote:

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Does dovecot require mysql in order to work?

For common email serving with IMAP and POP3, no. For IMAP and POP3 session proxying with 1.0-test releases, yes.

Ew, YUCK. Why does everyone think $DATABASE is the panacea for all ills?

Why you think this is a misuse of a database? Shared network storage might not have been the original purpose, but most DBs can do a pretty good job of this.

Just because they can't/won't cope with multiplicity, does not mean that X megabytes of general purpose database and all the overheads have to be used.

I can't tell if you have a problem with databases in general, or just the MySQL implementation from this. I guess that you could modify the code easily to use another DBMS which is much smaller such as sqlite.

If it's just proxying, why can't it speak LDAP, or even just a plain file ...

Why write code from scratch when you can use an API for a trusted piece of software which is likely to be available on most systems already?

P

(I haven't looked at 1.0-test-903 yet, I think I'm still on 70 something, but no way am I installing mysql ...)

Cheers,

Dominic Marks