I solved my mysql access problem with dovecot; turned out it was trying
a tcp connection and mysql is not listening on tcp. Fixed that to use
mysql.sock.
So this got me digging into how postfix was successfully accessing
mysql. I see in my various .cf files that access mysql that I have:
host= localhost
And reading the docs (what read the docs?), this tells postfix to
connect to mysql via the default UNIX domain socket. How does it know
what the file handle is? It seems to be working...
Should I force it with:
host = unix:/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
instead? Which is the sock that I am successfully using with dovecot
and amavis.
Plus it better documents the behavior instead of relying on reading the
docs...
thanks
