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mod_smacks: Send out more ack requests where needed Under some circumstances it was possible that more than "max_unacked_stanzas" where left in the outgoing stanza queue without forcing an ack. This could happen, when more stanzas entered the queue while the last ack request was still unanswered. Now the test "#queue > max_unacked_stanzas" is done upon receiving an ack as well as when sending out stanzas, which fixes this bug.
author tmolitor <thilo@eightysoft.de>
date Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:27:50 +0100
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labels:
- 'Stage-Alpha'
- 'Type-Auth'
summary: Dovecot authentication module
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Introduction
============

This is a Prosody authentication plugin which uses Dovecot as the
backend.

Configuration
=============

As with all auth modules, there is no need to add this to
modules\_enabled. Simply add in the global section, or for the relevant
hosts:

    authentication = "dovecot"

These options are used by mod\_auth\_dovecot:

  Name                    Description                               Default value
  ----------------------- ----------------------------------------- -------------------------------
  dovecot\_auth\_socket   Path to the Dovecot auth socket           "/var/run/dovecot/auth-login"
  auth\_append\_host      If true, sends the bare JID as authzid.   false

The Dovecot user and group must have access to connect to this socket.
You can create a new dedicated socket for Prosody too. Add the below to
the *socket listen* section of /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf, and match the
socket path in Prosody's dovecot\_auth\_socket setting.

    socket listen {
      ...
      client {
        path = /var/spool/prosody/private/auth-client
          mode = 0660
          user = prosody
          group = prosody
      }

Make sure the socket directories exist and are owned by the Prosody
user.

Note: Dovecot uses UNIX sockets by default. luasocket is compiled with
UNIX socket on debian/ubuntu by default, but is not on many other
platforms. If you run into this issue, you would need to either
recompile luasocket with UNIX socket support, or use Dovecot 2.x's TCP
socket support.

TCP socket support for Dovecot 2.x
----------------------------------

Dovecot 2.x includes TCP socket support. These are the relevant
mod\_auth\_dovecot options:

  Name                  Description               Default value
  --------------------- ------------------------- ----------------------------
  dovecot\_auth\_host   Hostname to connect to.   "127.0.0.1"
  dovecot\_auth\_port   Port to connect to.       *(this value is required)*

Compatibility
=============

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  trunk   Works
  0.8     Works
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