> 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.


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