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