Phil Howard skrev:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:03:00 +0200
Rainer <[email protected]> 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
