[Dovecot] Login with firstname.lastname instead of loginname - WORKING

[Ed W]

On 05/01/2011 08:51, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 3 years ago (!) I aksed about this and finally I implemented it today:
>
>>>    # NEW
>>>    passdb {
>>>       driver = passwd
>>>       # firstname.lastname at charite.de:password:uid:gid:(gecos):home:(shell):user=realloginname
>>>       args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot.login_via_email
>>>    }
>

Out of curiousity, given a userbase the size you have, why are you using 
unix users rather than say LDAP or SQL?

Ed W