[Dovecot] discrete passdb lookups for dovecot-auth

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:35 AM, benjamin thielsen wrote:

>
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 13.21, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 11:54 -0500, benjamin thielsen wrote:
>>> hi-
>>>
>>> i'm using ldap for user authentication, and would like to use
>>> different ldap lookups for authentication happening via postfix  
>>> (smtp
>>> auth) vs. authentication happening through dovecot (imap logins).   
>>> how
>>> can this be done, without running multiple instances?
>>
>> Unfortunately currently you can't. The best you can do is to use %s  
>> in
>> the ldap filters or base, but that probably won't be enough for you.
>
> thanks for the confirmation.  has this been considered?  in my  
> particular case, we have users who can receive and retrieve mail,  
> but not send mail, defined by the groups they belong to in our  
> directory tree.  would the ability to define discrete lookups (based  
> on the service? - maybe other criteria as well?) also be useful in  
> other scenarios?

Yes, it's been planned for a long time. v1.3 has rewritten  
configuration handling which makes this easier to implement. But I'm  
not sure if v1.3 yet will support this, perhaps it'll have to wait  
until v2.0.