[Dovecot] proxy, userdb and passdb

Steffen Kaiser
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:05:44 -0000

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Jogi Hofm?ller wrote:

> We are getting closer to the migration of our mailsystem.  Now I have a
> special question.  We are successfully using
>
> passdb {
>  driver = pam
> }
>
> and that is good.  Now, how would I tell dovecot to proxy certain users
> (the ones not yet migrated) to the old server?  My attempts to configure
> an additional userdb failed since this seems to override the passdb
setting.

see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields

However, a userdb does never override passdb setting (as I understand your
wording), because the userdb kicks in later, you should post your config.

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Steffen Kaiser
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