MariaDB database for users and passwords?

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 09/11/2019 05:44 Ken Wright via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
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> On 11/8/19 3:40 PM, Alexander Dalloz via dovecot wrote:
> > Am 08.11.2019 um 21:23 schrieb Ken Wright via dovecot:
> >>
> >> On 11/8/19 3:14 PM, @lbutlr via dovecot wrote:
> >>> On 08 Nov 2019, at 11:56, Ken Wright <wizard at bnnorth.net> wrote:
> >>>> Nov  8 13:28:53 grace dovecot: auth: Fatal: Unknown passdb driver ‘
> >>> You do not have Dovecot compiled with support for mysql'
> >>>
> >> But the dovecot-mysql package is installed!  Why can't it see that?
> >>
> >
> > The driver is called "sql". See
> >
> > https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/sql/
> >
> > Alexander
> >
> Are you sure?  I looked at that page, and it says there are different
> drivers for MySQL and PostgreSQL:  mysql and pgsql respectively.  I also
> checked dovecot.conf, and there the driver is called "sql."
> 
> Ken

SQL is the **authentication** database, which has mysql **driver**. So in dovecot.conf you use sql, and in the config file for the sql authentication, you specify the driver. See https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/master/doc/example-config/dovecot-sql.conf.ext#L32

Aki