[Dovecot] prefetch + static + deliver

[John Robinson]

On 30/03/2007 22:27, Tom Bombadil wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> 
> The prefetch entry in the wiki says:
> 
> "If you're using Dovecot's local delivery agent, you'll still need a
> valid userdb which it can use to locate the users. You can do this by
> adding a normal sql/ldap userdb after userdb prefetch."
> 
> (http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/Prefetch)
> 
> My question is:
> 
> Does it need to be a SQL/LDAP userdb? How about static or passwd?

I should think so, since prefetch is an optimisation for SQL/LDAP 
passdb+userdb, to save the result of the passdb lookup to reuse for the 
userdb bit. If you have a static userdb you don't need to save the 
SQL/LDAP passdb results, so you don't need prefetch.

Cheers,

John.