[Dovecot] authenticate authenticated users

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at gadot.fdns.net
Wed Jan 5 07:37:10 EET 2005


On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:39:09PM +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2005-01-04 21:52:11 +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > I would like to avoid typing my password whenever necessary but without
> > writing a plain-text equivalent copy of it locally. 
> 
> read about running imap binary from mutt as tunnel. and see how you can
> combine that with ssh and ssh-key based auth.

I know that, and used it with uw-imapd .

But you hint I should try the command:

   /usr/lib/dovecot/imap

Hint taken. Preauth works. Thanks


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