[Dovecot] quick question

[Brandon Davidson]

Timo,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi]
> 
> On 25.1.2010, at 21.30, Brandon Davidson wrote:
> > If it could be set up to just fall back to
> > using a local connection in the event of a SQL server outage, that
might
> > help things a bit. Anyone know how that might work?
> 
> Well, you can always fall back to LDAP if SQL isn't working.. Just
something
> like:
> 
> passdb sql {
>  ..
> }
> passdb ldap {
>  ..
> }

Or just 'passdb pam { ... }' for the second one in our case, since we're
using system auth with pam_ldap/nss_ldap. Is the SQL connection/query
timeout configurable? It would be nice to make a very cursory attempt at
proxying, and immediately give up and use a local connection if anything
isn't working.

-Brad