Last question of the day I promise :)

If dovecot is configured to use the MySQL patch, ie:

auth_userdb = mysql /path/to/dovecot-mysql.conf auth_passdb = mysql /path/to/dovecot-mysql.conf

Its not possible to "chain" authentication methods is it? I mean, if its using MySQL it _cannot_ be configured to check passwd (via "pam *") first, and then check mysql, right?

So, if I want to support real shell users (who are in /etc/passwd) I will have to have them in mysql along with the "virtual" users.

......

OK I lied, one more question!

I love the feature that you can login with a username user@domain and the domain is automatically parsed out.

Do these options have anything to do with the @domain part (referred to as a realm in auth.txt) or are they for something else completely? I'm not sure what SASL is that it refers to in the example .conf

#auth_realms = #auth_default_realm =

Thanks, Skye