On 04/07/2017 07:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 04/07/2017 01:19 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz: >>> 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... >> It doesn't. Postfix makes all MySQL requests through the mysql >> library. For best results, use the library that matches the server >> (so that they use the same default socket, among other things). > > I read this response to just leave it as host = localhost, as > everything is local on the one server. > > should be
hosts = localhost John
