From: Tony Earnshaw (tonyebilly.demon.nl)
Date: Tue Jul 19 2005 - 12:45:07 CDT

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tir, 19.07.2005 kl. 18.53 skrev Keith Matthews:

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> Oh dear, and I thought this subject had been beaten to death.
>
> I think it's best to summarise the main factors as
>
> 1. What you are familiar with
>
> 2. the extent to which you want to integrate other information with the
> mail system data (e.g. login verification)
>
> 3. the extent to which you want to take an 'off the shelf' solution and
> implement it quickly.
>
> LDAP is favoured by integration, MySQL by off the shelf solutions.
>
> Peformance wise there is (probably) some benefit in LDAP but only the
> busiest sites are likely to notice the difference and even they might
> have to look hard.

> Folks, I think we've got to the stage where this needs to go in the FAQ.

My contribution would be: "If you know you need LDAP, then use it,
otherwise use anything else you please."

--Tonni

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