Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: >> It appears that the stock RPM for Dovecot comes with Postgres, but not >> MySQL support. >> >> It looks like I need to download the source RPM and then rebuild it >> with MySQL support. Could someone outline the steps I need to do this >> or point me to a good resource? I have not worked with source RPMs in >> the past, but it looks like it is time to learn! > > > This morning I pulled down the source RPM for Dovecot in an attempt to > get MySQL support. The first thing I tried was the steps here: > well, if you just look at the .spec file included in dovecot's src.rpm - you will find its already built with mysql support. having said that, I had to get a dovecot install going with mysql support, and I took the easy way around, and left dovecot auth working against pam, and setting up pam_mysql to handle the backend. pam_mysql is available at http://centos.karan.org/ in the Extras repo, for both i386 and x86_64 CentOS4. - K