[Dovecot] multiple users to same e-mail account with ldap authentication

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 13.11.2012 11:35, schrieb Marco Gatti:
> Hi, I was looking for a particular case of dovecot configuration I
> cannot find anywhere.
> Is there a way dovecot can authenticate via ldap different windows
> 2008 AD users that have access to the same e-mail account (like user
> authorization in ms exchange)?
> For example I want to extend AD schema to let users have 10 email
> accounts (with multiple domain support). If they are private accounts
> I think there is no problem at all. But if I want two or more users to
> access the same mail account what happens? Can I do it with dovecot?
> Or should I create AD groups and add members to that, to let user
> access the same mail account?
> Cheers
> 

there may  more ways to goal this, for short looking one, way is
described here

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/ActiveDirectoryNtlm

using ldap might be better

look i.e

http://blog.al-shami.net/2008/05/freebsd-postfix-dovecot-and-active-directory/
http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix-dovecot-authentication-against-active-directory-on-centos-5.x


for ideas

Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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