On Wednesday 11 August 2004 03:20 pm, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:
> okay, hopefully this isn't too stupid a question.
>
> i'm needing to upgrade courier-imap. my vpopmail has been running off mysql
> backend forever. when i configure courier, should i still use
> --with-authvchkpw, or does my use of mysql mean it would be more direct to
> just use --with-authmysql? (i'm aware courier will normally compile every
> damned authentication method on the planet and its aunt, but i normally
> disable all but the one i need).
I believe the authvchkpw, cuz then it links against vpopmail and uses its.
I'm not sure exactly how the mysql backend works, I'm sure you could hack it
together to authenticate vpopmail mysql users, but I'm not sure how it works
(for instance, pure-ftpd you tell it what sql queries to use to get
information it needs, etc)
-Jeremy
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