Geert Hendrickx via Postfix-users:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 16:48:59 -0400, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote:
> > Postfix will support BerkeleyDB for as long as OS distributions
> > support it.
> >
> > For example, I do not expect it to be dropped by the *BSD platforms.
> > These come with a BerkeleyDB implementation that was released under
> > the (surprise) BSD license, not AGPL.
>
> Just out of curiosity; are you planning to allow building BerkeleyDB
> support as a Postfix dynamic database plugin, like the other db's?
> Right now it's still a special case being built into libpostfix.
>
> This would it make easier for distro's to make BDB support optional,
> and ease the transition.
That would be an invasive code and build change. It can be implemented
in Postfix 3.12, expected release early 2027. I wonder that is too
late to be useful.
Wietse
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