diff dovecot-example.conf @ 5371:fdcea7e3cf0c HEAD

If doing a plain userdb lookup with userdb static, verify the user's existence from passdb first, unless allow_all_users=yes
author Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
date Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:12:59 +0200
parents b02f3ec21baf
children 0e64feabb0d2
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--- a/dovecot-example.conf	Wed Mar 21 22:06:19 2007 +0200
+++ b/dovecot-example.conf	Wed Mar 21 22:12:59 2007 +0200
@@ -909,6 +909,13 @@
     #
     #  args = uid=500 gid=500 home=/var/mail/%u
     #
+    # If you use deliver, it needs to look up users only from the userdb. This
+    # of course doesn't work with static because there is no list of users.
+    # Normally static userdb handles this by doing a passdb lookup. This works
+    # with most passdbs, with PAM being the most notable exception. If you do
+    # the user verification another way, you can add allow_all_users=yes to
+    # the args in which case the passdb lookup is skipped.
+    #
     #args =
   #}