[Dovecot] mailadm? authentication vs. authorization?

Chris Wakelin c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Fri Nov 24 10:23:28 UTC 2006


David Lee wrote:
> Does "dovecot" have anything similar to the UW IMAP "mailadm" group
> operation?  From near the end of:

Dovecot supports "master" users; see http://wiki.dovecot.org/MasterPassword

So far, I'm only planning to use it for automated migration of staff
accounts to, *cough* Exchange, so will probably run it in its own
Dovecot service on a different port. I'll also restrict the IP addresses
the master user can use.

Chris

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