MariaDB database for users and passwords?

[Ken Wright]

On 11/8/19 2:52 PM, John Stoffel via dovecot wrote:
>>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Wright via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ken> Nov  8 13:28:53 grace dovecot: auth: Fatal: Unknown passdb driver 'mysql'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This line right here looks to be the problem.  Do you have mysql
>>>>>> support compiled into your Dovecot instance?  I run my own domain and
>>>>>> I thought I'd do SQL (mysql or sqllite) for my stuff, but the
>>>>>> compilications were so much that it was simpler to drop to plain text
>>>>>> files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IMHO, if you have less than 500 users, just got flat files to start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But back to your case, did you install the 'dovecot-mysql' package
>>>>>> with your distribution?  For debian, I search with:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>      apt-cache search dovecot | grep mys
>>>>>>
Okay, I checked, and dovecot-mysql is installed.  I can't see why that
driver is unknown!

Ken

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