On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:04 +0800, Denny Lin wrote: > I was wondering if it would be possible to read the username/password > from a Dovecot config file (like userdb/passdb/quota/expire) instead of > using my.cnf. See if something like this works: HOME=/etc/dovecot/mysql mysql ... And put the password to /etc/dovecot/mysql/.my.cnf