On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:47:21PM +0400, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > > However, having dbmail.conf world-readable is *very* unwise. This will > > expose your whole maildatabase to all > > kinds of ugliness. > > Actually I use dbmail for local storage, so security is provided by only > binding dbmail-imap (and mysql) to localhost. I would prefer to not let > mysql listen on tcp at all (unix socket only) but I was unable to find > this option in its config file, so I told it to bind to localhost.
Use the skip-networking option in my.cnf. Sorry I can't help with the larger problem. xn