> On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 08:34 PM, OSC Hosting SysAdmin wrote: > > I can get Vpopmail working fine with MySQL but I'm missing > > instructions on > > alterations to IMAP and Qmailadmin so that they will authenticate > > using the mysql > > database. > > I don't personally run with MySQL, but it was my understanding that > since qmailadmin called the vpopmail libraries, the use of MySQL was > transparent. QmailAdmin doesn't know (or care) if you're using MySQL > on the backend. > > Likewise, the POP/IMAP servers use vchkpw to authenticate and don't > need to know whether MySQL is used or not.
Correct Apps/daemons (eg qmailadmin, pop3d, courier-imap) all talk to vpopmail, vpopmail then talks to whatever backend it was configured for So the backend is transparent to the apps Michael.