Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:44:24 +0200 > Jan-Frode Myklebust articulated: > >> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 08:51:18AM -0700, terryjames9...@mm.st wrote: >> > >> > I'm a little confused about: to do that sharing-in-one-place, do I >> > have to use SQL or can I use the flatfiles like passwd-db? I >> > think for sure someone already decided the best approach for this, >> > and maybe I'm not understanding the logic to it. >> >> Best approach is probably to store this in an ldap-directory. Then >> you can easily have multi-master replication, and avoid any single >> point of failure for your database. Both postfix and dovecot will be >> able to lookup the data using ldap. > > While "ldap" may be fine for some users; personally, I have had > nothing but catastrophic results when attempting to use it. I am fully > aware that the main problem is that I am not truly "ldap" proficient. > For the end user who needs an easy to maintain database I would > unequivocally recommend MySQL.
+1 on the mysql. /Per Jessen, Zürich
