[Dovecot] Probs authenticating to Dovecot

[Noel Butler]

On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 23:38 -0700, Kris Magnusson wrote:


> 
> and introducing a DB into the mix just made things an order of magnitude more complicated. I'd rather use OpenLDAP, since I can write JNDI code to figure out what's going on with a directory and even add/modify/delete entries to/in the directory.
> 


I'll start a war here, but IMO, ldap is just another database...

If you are doing virtuals nothing wrong with them, mysql works fine.


> I will blow this VM away and start from scratch. Unless anyone has any concrete suggestions I can implement before then that I can use to salvage a day's worth of work.
> 


Unless you built them from source, I'd wait a day or so (if you can)
until maybe some ubuntu users can offer suggestions, but, given ubuntu
is just a dressed up debian, you might find something of interest that
will work for you on google.


> Is there a best possible OS for running Dovecot/Postfix?

Slackware! haha  - asking that question will start another war - each to
our own, whatever distro you are comfortable with - slackware, centos,
debian, suse, or the kiddie variants (fedora/ubuntu)  (/me puts on flame
suite )... it wont make much difference really, it's just a mater of
getting the daemons to talk nicely to each other, which they do,
postfix, dovecot and mysql go hand in hand.


> but I recognize there are different OSes out there. I don't care if it's Linux-based or a BSD distribution. 
> 
> Will Dovecot/Postfix scale without a RDBMS backing it up? Or will OpenLDAP suffice?
> 


It scales best with one, but that's just my opinion, there are some folk
who do use ldap but I dont know their network requirements.

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