> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > Namens Bradley Giesbrecht > Verzonden: maandag 8 maart 2010 17:06 > Aan: Carlos Mennens > CC: Dovecot Mailing List > Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Using MySQL For Mailboxes? > > > > On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Timo Sirainen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dovecot supports looking up user information from MySQL, but not > >> actually storing mails there. If you really wanted to > store mails on > >> MySQL, you'd have to use dbmail instead of Dovecot. > > > > Is it even worth it with less than 500 users? I mean I > don't have any > > problems right now creating individual users and their home > > directories in Linux but I have never used MySQL for mail so can't > > differentiate the two. I guess I don't even know if this worth the > > effort to change my configuration especially if it involves > changing > > out my IMAP server for 'dbmail' which I know nothing about > until you > > mentioned it. > > > No one will be able to answer what something is worth to you. > > If your 500 users are mostly email only then you will probably enjoy > storing email addresses, passwords, paths to mailboxes, > quotes etc... > in mysql. > > This is how you can use mysql with dovecot. The emails will still be > stored on a file system in one of the popular mailbox formats like > mbox, maildir, etc.... > > // Brad
You might have a look at PostfixAdmin. Egbert >
