[Dovecot] question about mysql authentication

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jan 16 19:39:56 EET 2008


On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 18:33 +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:32:33 you wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 16:02 +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> > > When I use this:
> >
> > Starting from dovecot-example.conf would have worked better than trying
> > to modify 0.99 configuration to work with v1.0.
> 
> actually I got the configuration from a howto, maybe I should have looked at 
> the example instead :)

Yes, from a HOWTO written for v0.99..

> However now I get an error in the logfiles: 
> auth(default): Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot-mysql.conf line 4: 
> Unknown setting: db
> Is there something wrong with my mysql configuration as well?

Yes, you have it also in 0.99 format. See the dovecot-sql-example.conf
included with v1.0 (sources at least) for how it's configured nowadays.

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