Hi,

I had a devil of a time compiling Dovecot with MySQL, but got it as follows:

MYSQL=/usr
export CPPFLAGS="-I${MYSQL}/include -I${MYSQL}/lib -I/usr/local/ssl/ -I/usr/local/ssl/include/ "
export LDFLAGS="-L${MYSQL}/lib -R${MYSQL}/lib -I${MYSQL}/include -I${MYSQL}/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib"
export SSL_FLAGS="-I/usr/local/ssl/ -I/usr/local/ssl/include/"
export SSL_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib"

./configure --localstatedir=/var --with-mysql=/usr

...

Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local
File offsets ........................ : 64bit
I/O loop method ..................... : poll
File change notification method ..... : dnotify
Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL)
Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes
Building with pop3 server ........... : yes
Building with mail delivery agent  .. : yes
Building with user database modules . : static passdb passwd passwd-file checkpassword mysql (modules)
Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword mysql (modules)


This is basically for somebody who RPM'd MySQL into /usr .  I also figured out
the less you give ./configure the better off you are.

And...maybe you could help **me**..  :-)

If you could post a few samples of how to actually connect to MySQL that
would be great, for some reason I STILL cannot connect to MySQL even though
I know the user/pass works for my dovecot userid.  I know MySQL is compiled
into dovecot but still cannot get the connect to work.

I've tried:


my dovecot.conf:

auth default {

  mechanisms = plain

  passdb sql {
     args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf
   }

  userdb sql {
    args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-mysql.conf
   }
}



my dovecot-mysql.conf:

driver  = mysql

connect = host=127.0.0.1 dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot port=3306
connect = host=mydomain dbname=dovecot user=postfix password=postfix port=3306
connect = host=mydomain dbname=dovecot user=dovecot  password=dovecot port=3306
connect = host=localhost dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot  port=3306
connect = host=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock dbname=dovecot user=dovecot password=dovecot port=3306


I get:

Aug 26 10:45:35 dovecot: auth-worker(default_with_listener): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (dovecot): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds
before retry
Aug 26 10:45:35 dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (dovecot): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry
Aug 26 10:47:17 dovecot: Killed with signal 15
Aug 26 10:47:21 dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connect failed to (null) (dovecot): Access denied for user 'dovecot'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - waiting for 1 seconds before retry

Help!

Tim