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Subject: Re: dovecot questions
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Peter Schuller wrote:
>
> This is up to you. dovecot does not provide and user interfaces for managing 
> accounts (that I am aware of). Typically a reason to have the user database 
> in a relational database would be to enable the construction of such 
> interfaces, or perhaps use of existing tools. But unless I am missing 
> something, user management is beyond the scope of what dovecot itself is 
> providing.
>
>   
You are correct; I use Postfixadmin to do this personally.

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