[Dovecot] selection correct auth with multiple auth methods

[jm]

Much thanks for clearing that up. The documentation wasn't very heplful 
on that point. I'll change it to a single instance and rely on a more 
complex SQL query. I look forward to version 2.


thanks again,

Jeff.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:27 +1100, jm wrote:
>   
>> How do you control which socket or authentication process dovecot's pop3
>> daemon chooses to use? I've got a user database with two flags one to
>> allow pop3 access and the other to allow the use of auth smtp. There are
>> two authentication instances configed, thus,
>>
>> auth default {
>>     
> ..
>   
>> auth postfix {
>>     
>
> Although this seems logical, unfortunately it's not how the feature was
> originally built. So you can't choose which auth block Dovecot uses,
> it'll use both of them somewhat randomly. Hopefully v2.0 will finally do
> this right.
>
> Currently if you want this you need to run two Dovecot instances.
>