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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