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I'm responsible for several mail servers and all are them are running postfix with the user data stored in SQL (including my own personal mail server). The pri
by jlgaddis 9y ago
I'm responsible for several mail servers and all are them are running postfix with the user data stored in SQL (including my own personal mail server). The primary reason is to simplify administration (management of user accounts and such, using various scripts and webapps).
- lathiat 9y agoThe way we do it is the primary store is in SQL but I sync that data out to a file on demand
- SwellJoe 9y agoThere is an argument to be made for some sort of central backend store when you have multiple mail servers for the same domain(s) and users. SQL isn't terrible in that context (I would likely prefer LDAP for that, but SQL works, too). Most of our users have one server, and lots of tutorials and stuff are about one mail server. It just makes no sense to add that huge amount of extra complexity for that simple use case.