[tpop3d-discuss] maildir

Matthew Trent mtrent at localaccess.com
Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:06:12 -0800


Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> Donovan Craig wrote:
> > My question is: If you're using MySQL authentication and specifying
> > the path within the db, will tpop3d know to use maildir if a
> > directory is specified or do I need to do something else for this to
> > happen ?
> 
> No, the mailbox type is returned in the SQL-query. The default hard-coded
> query uses bsd:
> SELECT concat(domain.path, '/', popbox.mbox_name), popbox.password_hash,
> domain.unix_user, 'bsd'
> so you have to specify your own auth-mysql-pass-query and/or
> auth-mysql-apop-query which returns 'maildir' instead of 'bsd'.
> 
> > BTW: Saw the new version today (1.5.1).. Looks good. downloading it
> 
> yeah, runs very fine here. and maildir-only from the beginning :) (1.3.4 or
> something)

Just an FYI that this problem threw me for a loop for quite some time today until I found this post. Perhaps this should be documented (or changed) somewhere?
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Matt
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