On 10/5/05, Paul Reeves <paul@...> wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 October 2005 11:09, Frank Schlottmann-Goedde wrote:
> > Dan Wilson schrieb:
> > > Is there any interest at all in getting Firebird support within
> > > Postfix?
> >
> > I would definitely be interested.
> >
>
> Is it worth it? How would Postfix benefit from using Firebird. I'm just
> wondering, because for small sites flat files are more than adequate. And
> Firebird's strength lies in concurrent access to data that is being
> updated by other users. Does Postfix's database usage need Firebird?

I think is useful for hosting providers , it's easier to create
users/hosts in a database and use them for apache vhosting, mail
vhosting ...etc

>
>
> > (cyrus too?)
>
> Do you mean changing the cyrus database backend? I thought Cyrus was
> tightly tied to the Berkely DB?

it can work with mysql and other databases too
http://www.webconexion.net/knowledgebase/linux_howto/virtual_mail_server.php

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