Why does dovecot require mysql?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 11:38, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > Good point.  I found this on an FC2 system.  However it is true of FC3
> > as well.  Change has been made.  :)
> 
> warron togami - redhat devel  has just confirmed he is planning to do
> this for fc4
> 

Excellent!  There has been some interesting discussion in bugzilla about
this issue.  I am glad they will modify this for FC4.  Having to include
mysql and postgresql just to use dovecot is major bloat for most users
and IMHO a security risk.  It will make security audits more difficult
since unused packages are included and adds just that much more code
that could have an exploit in it.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rahul Sundaram
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