[Dovecot] minor director issues

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Sep 2 17:13:33 EEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 16:11 +0200, Cor Bosman wrote:
> > Director doesn't know what users are logged in, only CRC32 of their
> > username. So doveadm first gets a list of all users, adds them to hash
> > table, then gets the list of CRC32s of users from director and maps them
> > to usernames via the hash table. <unknown> means that the user wasn't
> > found from the hash table.
> > 
> > So .. my guess is that doveadm didn't get a full list of usernames. And
> > you probably don't even want it to read those 2 million (or whatever)
> > user records from SQL? :)
> 
> Ah ofcourse! cor is in the local password file, while the other login is
> in the NIS database. That explains it. And we dont allow processes to ask
> for the whole NIS table :) 

Note also the -f parameter. You can get a list of usernames and dump
them into a file and use that.




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