[Dovecot] Proxying for some users and having the rest local?

[Dr Josef Karthauser]

On 7 May 2012, at 20:28, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 7.5.2012, at 22.21, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
>>  password_query = SELECT user, domain, password, "masteruser" as master, "masterpass" as pass, proxy, "remoteimap.server" as host FROM mailboxes \
>>      WHERE user = '%n' AND isMailbox AND active AND domain = '%d'
>> 
>> I imagined that I could switch the proxy per user by setting proxy='n' or proxy=null for any users that want to be local, and proxy='y' for any users that I want to forward on to the original server.
>> 
>> It doesn't appear to work that way though. Irrespective of the proxy value dovecot appears to try and proxy all users.
> 
> If you return a host setting, Dovecot handles it as login referral: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Host
> 
> So you need to return proxy=null and host=null.
> 
> If that doesn't seem to help, set auth_debug=yes and verify from the logs that neither of them are returned by auth process.

Perfect, thanks for the quick feedback. (Would it be possible to fix the docs a tweak; it's exactly this kind of information that would be useful to know :).

Thanks,
Joe