[Dovecot] Password auth scheme question with mysql

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.1.2012, at 2.03, Ed W wrote:

> The error seems to be that I set the "pass" variable in my password_query to set the master password for the upstream proxied to server.  I can't actually remember now why this was required, but it was necessary to allow the proxy to work correctly in the past.  I guess this assumption needs revisiting now since it can't be used if the plain password isn't in the database...

I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but if you need the user's plaintext password it's in %w variable (assuming plaintext authentication). So a common configuration is to use: '%w' AS pass