[Dovecot] selection correct auth with multiple auth methods

jm
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:58:38 -0000

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.
>