[Dovecot] PostgreSQL user database

[Timo Sirainen]

On 10.12.2004, at 23:50, Marco Herrn wrote:

>>> But I came to another problem when doing this. Is it the case that
>>> dovecot expects uids and gids always as numbers? I only store the
>>> human readable names of them, but dovecot complains with:
>>
>> If they are names, how should dovecot translate them to numbers?
>
> Sorry for my little knowledge about that, but I thought that the names
> should be enough. At least exim is capable of using user and group
> names as well as uids and gids. Do you know where the difference is in
> the way exim and dovecot handle this? I would think that exim just
> looks into the passwd file for this information (this is only an
> assumption). Is this not possible in dovecot?

Well, after replying, I started thinking if I wanted Dovecot to convert 
uid/gid names to numbers. I couldn't decide yet. It could be useful, 
but it could be just bloat. Does anyone have a ready patch to do it? 
Maybe then it would be easier :)
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