[Dovecot] SASL

[Friedrich Locke]

Ok!

can dovecot do keberos password verification (yes, that's it, password
verification and not GSSAPI with tickets) ?

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter <p at state-of-mind.de> wrote:
> * Friedrich Locke <friedrich.locke at gmail.com>:
>> i am looking for a pop3 server and would like to know dovecot pop3 closer.
>> In my current infra structure all my users have a single login and one
>> password. I have been authenticating unix, web, ldap, smtp against
>> saslauthd server.
>>
>> It is possible to have dovecot pop3 authenticate by contacting saslauthd too ?
>
> No, but Dovecot can lookup users in LDAP, authenticaten and authorize them.
>
>> Another question:
>>
>> All my user information are keeped inside LDAP using qmail.schema. Can
>> dovecot pop3 look into ldap an return information about user mail
>> directory, etc .... ?
>
> Yes, it can and it is very flexible. Either you only lookup a few items and
> derive the rest from standard settings configured in Dovecot or you have
> Dovecot lookup everything in LDAP. In any case you simply map the LDAP
> attributes to Dovecot atttributes as you need it. Once you understood it (it's
> not too complicated) it's even fun. ;)
>
> p at rick
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