[Dovecot] imap and vpopmail: per-domain auth

[Alessio Cecchi]

Il Tuesday 08 July 2008 13:48:17 Francesco Abeni ha scritto:
> Alessio Cecchi ha scritto:
> > Il Monday 07 July 2008 17:31:00 Francesco Abeni ha scritto:
> >> Hi, i have qmail + vpopmail + dovecot + squirrelmail 0.99.14 on Fedora
> >> Core 4. Qmail includes its own pop3 server, and everybody is able to
> >> access it from outside. Dovecot is used only locally by SquirrelMail -
> >> so everybody can access via webmail.
> >>
> >> I'd like to make imap directly available from outside, but only for a
> >> few selected domains (NOT ip addresses!), while leaving everyone able to
> >> access with pop3 and/or via webmail.
> >
> > Hi Francesco,
> >
> > yes it is theoretically possible, but due to some problems this feature
> > of vpopmail is not fully compatible with dovecot.
> >
> > vpopmail via ~vpopmail/bin/vmoduser can set some limit to single users,
> > example disble pop3, disable imap, disable imap except for webmail, etc
> > ...
> >
> > Dovect should move to vpopmail some parameters of the user who logged, as
> > his address and local port connection,   but unfortunately these
> > parameters are not passed, or at least not be passed as would expect to
> > receive vpopmail, in particular for the connections made via imap from
> > remote clients. (...)
>
> Alessio, thank you for your very complete answer and evalutation of the
> problem. Since you have already set up a test environment, can you do me
> a favour and try one more thing?
> Specify - in dovecot.conf - the port on which imap should listen to, and
> see if it makes any difference to vpopmail.
>
> Thank you again very much for your cooperation.

after changing the configuration like this

protocol imap {
listen = *:143
ssl_listen = *:993
mail_plugins = quota imap_quota
}

the result is the same :-(

Jul  8 14:17:42 gag18 vpopmail[7923]: vchkpw-0: (PLAIN) login success 
alessiotest at domain.it:217.127.131.153

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