Robert Moskowitz:
> I solved my mysql access problem with dovecot; turned out it was trying
> a tcp connection and mysql is not listening on tcp. Fixed that to use
> mysql.sock.
>
> So this got me digging into how postfix was successfully accessing
> mysql. I see in my various .cf files that access mysql that I have:
>
> host= localhost
>
> And reading the docs (what read the docs?), this tells postfix to
> connect to mysql via the default UNIX domain socket. How does it know
> what the file handle is? It seems to be working...
It doesn't. Postfix makes all MySQL requests through the mysql
library. For best results, use the library that matches the server
(so that they use the same default socket, among other things).
Wietse
