On Apr 10, 2005, at 19:16, Avtar Gill wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
I'm a bit curious what benefit you achieve from adding the complexity of mysql into the mix. Does it improve performance? Is there some feature that you need that is only available if you hook in a database back-end?
Probably so it's easier to administer user accounts using a web interface or any other type of UI. I doubt it's primarily for performance reasons. Personally, I prefer an LDAP backend for that purpose.
I've done what Franki described with a LDAP backend, because LDAP rocks in these massive read situations. The Postfix in Centos/RHEL 4 was the first that had usable versions of Postfix, OpenLDAP and SASL to make it all work without compiling anything myself.
jens