[Dovecot] NULL for password and proxy fields
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Mon Feb 4 19:56:48 EET 2008
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:48 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote:
> >> 2. It looks like any value at all for the "proxy" field in the passdb
> >> lookup turns proxying on. The one exception is a value of NULL for
> >> "proxy", in which case proxying is not turned on and proxy-related
> >> other fields are ignored. Is that how it's intended to work?
> >>
> >
> > Yes. It might change in some future release, but currently I'm not
> > planning on changing it. 'Y' would anyway be a future-safe choice.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for the information. I was actually asking about the other side
> of the coin ... is it safe to assume that "proxy=NULL" will disable the
> proxying, at least for the 1.0 series? (I saw the "proxy_maybe" for
> 1.1, which is also OK for me when I get to that release.)
Yes. It's even documented (somewhere) that NULL value means the same as
if the field wasn't even selected by the query.
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