dovecot - Mar 2009 - selection correct auth with multiple auth methods

How do you control which socket or authentication process dovecot's pop3
daemon chooses to use? I've got a user database with two flags one to
allow pop3 access and the other to allow the use of auth smtp. There are
two authentication instances configed, thus,

auth default {
....
   passdb sql {
     args = /etc/dovecot-sql-postfix.conf
   }
   ....
    socket listen {
    master {
      path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
      mode = 0660
      user       group     }
}


auth postfix {
.....
  passdb sql {
    args = /etc/dovecot-sql-postfix.conf
  }
....

socket listen {
    client {
      path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode = 0660
      user = postfix
      group = postfix
    }
  }
}

 From the logs and testing pop3 is using the postfix authentication
instance and not the default as expected. Does anyone out there know how
control dovecot's pops daemon authentication choice? This infomation
seems to be lacking in the documentation I can find.


Jeff.

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:27 +1100, jm wrote:
> How do you control which socket or authentication process dovecot's
pop3
> daemon chooses to use? I've got a user database with two flags one to
> allow pop3 access and the other to allow the use of auth smtp. There are
> two authentication instances configed, thus,
> 
> auth default {
..
> auth postfix {
Although this seems logical, unfortunately it's not how the feature was
originally built. So you can't choose which auth block Dovecot uses,
it'll use both of them somewhat randomly. Hopefully v2.0 will finally do
this right.

Currently if you want this you need to run two Dovecot instances.
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Much thanks for clearing that up. The documentation wasn't very heplful 
on that point. I'll change it to a single instance and rely on a more 
complex SQL query. I look forward to version 2.


thanks again,

Jeff.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:27 +1100, jm wrote:
>   
>> How do you control which socket or authentication process dovecot's
pop3
>> daemon chooses to use? I've got a user database with two flags one
to
>> allow pop3 access and the other to allow the use of auth smtp. There
are
>> two authentication instances configed, thus,
>>
>> auth default {
>>     
> ..
>   
>> auth postfix {
>>     
>
> Although this seems logical, unfortunately it's not how the feature was
> originally built. So you can't choose which auth block Dovecot uses,
> it'll use both of them somewhat randomly. Hopefully v2.0 will finally
do
> this right.
>
> Currently if you want this you need to run two Dovecot instances.
>