[Dovecot] MySQL, map files

Steve Fatula compconsultant at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 9 02:52:30 EEST 2011


I'll try and break up my questions the other day about extdata that went unanswered into pieces in the hopes it will be more specific and clear.

In general, I am trying to figure out the syntax of the map statement and what is allowed in that statement. So, by map statement, I mean for example perhaps the dovecot-dict-expire.conf.ext file as shown in the doc. Is the syntax the same for the various types of files (quota vs expire)? Is there syntax to allow the specification of a different key? If so, where is this documented. I have an existing table I want to use, not the table shown in the doc.

The reason I am asking is I have seen web pages that reference all sorts of statements within the map statement, and I have no idea where they are documented. Specifically, I see an example here (which is LDAP), look in section 3:

http://dovecot.org/patches/1.2/ldap/HOWTO_dictldap+extdata.txt


You will see lots of statements, not sure which ones can be used for MySQL (instead of LDAP). So, would like to find a list of ALL valid syntax within the map.



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