On 5/20/2012 6:19 AM, Jerry wrote: > I have a friend who is preparing to set up a small Postfix/Dovecot mail > system. There are only approximately 25 users. He wants to use Berkeley > DB in a similar fashion to the way Postfix does. I told him I do not > believe Dovecot supports that. I could not find any documentation > relating to it. > > 1) Does Dovecot support Berkeley DB?
No: http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase These databases can be used as both password databases and user databases: Passwd: System users (NSS, /etc/passwd, or similiar) Passwd-file: /etc/passwd-like file in specified location LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol SQL: SQL database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite) VPopMail: External software used to handle virtual domains > 2) Are their any plans to incorporate that feature into Dovecot? It [Timo answers here] > seems like it could potentially be a very useful feature. I have used > it myself when a full blown MySQL configuration seemed like over-kill > on other small projects. SQLite is the appropriate solution for this scenario. -- Stan
