[Dovecot] Re: pop/imap & smtp auth installation with just one userdb

[Christoph Steigmeier]

Hi Chris

I was first following up the approach of having a filebased db because it seemed to me a bit more rightsized for my aprox.
50 users. But maybe LDAP isn't that hard to setup. I will have a look at
the various how-to's. Do you have it implemented that way?

Thanks, good input.

Kind regards

Chris

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Chris Hills wrote:

> Christoph Steigmeier wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > First of all thanks to the authors of dovecot. It's a pleasure to work
> > with it.
> >
> > I would like to ask, if somebody has an idea about how I can combine all
> > mailusers (dovecot pop/imap & sendmail smtp) into one db, given that I'd
> > like to use sasl with CRAM-MD5 as authentication mechanism to ensure security. The idea
> > behind my question is, that it is easier to administer all mail users,
> > which in my case are mostly non-interactive users, into one db, instead of
> > creating native unix accounts for them.
> >
> > Any input appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks and Kind regards
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
> Hi Chris
>
> Have you considered an LDAP directory? From what you have described, it
> sounds like the appropriate solution.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Chris Hills
> IT Services
> North East Worcestershire College
>