What do I do with the ".ext?"

[Aki Tuomi]

On December 17, 2022 5:09:55 AM GMT+02:00, James Moe <moe.james at sma-inc.us> wrote:
>dovecot 2.3.15
>opensuse LEAP 15.4
>
>  I am installing dovecot and have postfix as the SMTP agent. It also needs to
>use a MySQL database. In </etc/dovecot> there is the main dovecot.conf file, and
>a number of other files with the extension ".conf.ext."
>  It is not clear how to use these. I could nothing in the documentation that
>discusses it.
>  Do I copy one, say dovecot-sql.conf.ext, modify it:
>- rename the copy without the ".ext?"
>- or move the copy to the "conf.d" directory, with or without the "ext?"
>

Hi!

Please see https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/sql/#authentication-sql how to use these.

Aki