offering limited pop access

[Wesley Craig]

I can see why you describe it as "well hidden".  Thanks for the  
enlightenment.  I'll endeavor to get all of these points adequately  
included in the documentation.  Thanks!

	https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3114
	https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3115

:wes

On 30 Oct 2008, at 15:28, Andreas Winkelmann wrote:
> Because plugin_name is NULL in most cases, the interesting part  
> here is
> config_getoverflowstring()@lib/libconfig.c:
>
> const char *config_getoverflowstring(const char *key, const char *def)
> {
>     char buf[256];
>     char *ret = NULL;
>
>     /* First lookup <ident>_key, to see if we have a service-specific
>      * override */
>
>     if(config_ident) {
>         if(snprintf(buf,sizeof(buf),"%s_%s",config_ident,key) == -1)
>             fatal("key too long in config_getoverflowstring",  
> EC_TEMPFAIL);
>
>         ret = hash_lookup(buf, &confighash);
>     }
>
>     /* No service-specific override, check the actual key */
>     if(!ret)
>         ret = hash_lookup(key, &confighash);
>
>     /* Return what we got or the default */
>     return ret ? ret : def;
> }
>
> config_ident is filled from master with the first column from  
> cyrus.conf of
> the assoiciated Service. So in the case of pop3 Cyrus-IMAP tries  
> first to
> lookup the Option with "pop3_sasl_..."
>
>> The sasl_<someoption> seems to be pretty well described in the man
>> page for imapd.conf.  The method with the plugin_name
>> (sasl_<plugin_name>_<someoption>) wasn't in the documentation that I
>> could find.
>
> A few examples for plugin_name "SQL", "ldapdb", "DIGEST-MD5",  
> "GSSAPI", "SRP",
> NULL. The environment of the related option from Cyrus-SASL  
> specifies the
> plugin_name. All ldapdb_ Options have "ldapdb", "sql_*" "SQL" and  
> so on...