[Dovecot] dovecot authentication Local + MySQL

[Henrique Fernandes]

I did not read all, but i guess you are lokking for this

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases

Hope it will help you.


[]'sf.rique


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:51 AM, PARTH MONGA <kprprl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Friends
>
> I am facing an issue with dovecot configuration and i am describing it in a
> nutshell.
>
> We have a dovecot setup under ultramonkey load balancer  and in
> loadbalancer
> we have a check defined for pop service which queries mysqldatabase for a
> particular user name/password after every 2 minutes to check if service is
> live or not..
> Things are fine till here .
> Now The catch is  if somehow that particular user info(either password or
> username) is mistakenly changed in mysql database whole of my pop gets down
> beacuse load balancer cant login  and that is a single point of failure in
> my setup .
>
> Now what i want is
> I want to know if there is any method that i can setup in dovecot to lookup
> for a user locally first and then go for a remote search for the user( ie
> in
> mysql database)
> So that we get the  user searched locally before querying the mysql
> database
> Local + mysql database authetication i want to be in parallel with each
> other.
>
> Please show some light on this .
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Parth Monga
>