[Dovecot] gssapi, kerberos and webmail

Frank Elsner Frank.Elsner at TU-Berlin.DE
Fri Sep 14 11:18:30 EEST 2007


On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:02:39 +0200 Denis Cardon wrote:

  [ ... ]

> how do people on this mailing list handle kerberos authentication with 
> webmail? Do you use other kind of authentication on privileged port (ie 
> with access only from apache) and just do a login/nopassword 
> authentication (like an uid base authentication through ldapi:/// on an 
> ldap directory for example) ?

My squirrelmail talks imap to the server (localhost in my case) an does no
authentication by its own. I guess most webmailers work this way.


--Frank Elsner



More information about the dovecot mailing list