Paul, It worked for me, thanks!
Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 10:57:38 AM, you wrote: > No. You have to specify two new parameters in dbmail.conf > sqlport=3306 > sqlsocket=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock > If you specify host=localhost, sqlsocket IS required since > mysql_real_connect will connect to the unix socket instead of a tcp > socket. Otherwise, if host=someotherhost sqlport is required. Probably, > sqlport should default to 3306 for mysql builds, but I dont believe it > does so at present. > Checkout the mysql C-API docs for more authorative information. > Alexander Prohorenko wrote: >> Christian, >> >> I've alread set host in my /etc/dbmail.conf: >> >> host=localhost >> >> Do you think that the idea is to use IP numbers ? >> >> Monday, December 15, 2003, 9:55:56 PM, you wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:51:43PM +0200, Alexander Prohorenko wrote: >>> >>>>Hi. >>>> >>>>Normally, I'm running the dbmail-1.2.1 and it works just fine for me. >>>>However, I've decided to upgrade to the latest dbmail-2, as far as I >>>>don't like to functionality in working with the IMAP dirs in >>>>dbmail-1. I've heard that it has been pretty improved in dbmail-2. >>>>However, after building everything and getting it up, no function of >>>>it was able to connect to MySQL. >>>> >>>>It shows the following: >>>>dbmysql.c,db_connect: mysql_real_connect failed: Can't connect >>>>to local MySQL server through socket '' (2) >> >> >>>I'm not sure what the real fix is, but you can connect over tcp by >>>setting the host to 127.0.0.1 as a workaround. >> >> >> >>>xn >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Dbmail mailing list >>>Dbmail@dbmail.org >>>https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail >> >> >> -- Prohorenko