[Dovecot] installing dovecot on Mac OS X

[Timo Sirainen]

On 20.10.2004, at 20:34, Alan Schmitt wrote:

> - What authentification method would you recommend? OS X does not keep
>   the users and passwords in /etc/passwd, so I'm using passwd-file
>   method at the moment. I'm wondering how good a choice this is.

I think it does update /etc/passwd? At least my userid is there. You 
should be able to use PAM as passdb, and passwd as userdb.

> - I would like to do the following (as described in
>   http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/):
>   <quote>
>   1.2.1.3. Using a tunnel to your IMAP server
..
>   however I could not find a imapd to call directly. Is this possible
>   with dovecot?

/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

> - I see that the maiboxes created under the Maildir directory are of 
> the
>   form .INBOX and .Sent. Could it be possible (maybe using namespaces, 
> I
>   have not really understood how they work) to store them without the
>   leading dot?

Not yet. It's the Maildir++ standard. I may implement something else 
some day.
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