[Dovecot] Dovecot doesn't use vchkpw properly :(

[Timo Sirainen]

On 1.7.2005, at 02:23, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> On Thursday 30 June 2005 21:08, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 30.6.2005, at 20:49, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:
>>> It seems that dovecot does NOT call vchkpw properly when using
>>> vpopmail-style authentication, I can only guess that it reads
>>> the vpasswd{,.cdb} files directly.
>>
>> Right. It uses vpopmail's library directly.
>
> Will it continue to work when we change to using PostgreSQL support
> in vpopmail to store the usernames and passwords in a database?

Yes. vchkpw also uses the same library to access the passwords. It just 
does a bit more than what Dovecot does (the password saving).
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