On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, JL wrote:
I have Dovecot 1.0.5 running imaps successfully with Postfix on Ubuntu. Authorization is by SASL. Currently, my mail client (mutt) requests a password to access my folders.
I would like to configure Dovecot so that a user logged into the localhost (i.e., already authenticated) does not receive the password prompt. Remote logins should of course demand the authentication, but if I'm logged into the server via SSH, for example, I'd like to be able to run mutt without the password prompt. Is this a viable proposition?
Does your IMAP client support just talking to the IMAP server on a pipe? Alpine/PINE does, and that's what I use.
Just tell it to talk to the program "/usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap" as the IMAP server, and you'll be preauthenticated.
The only issue with this approach is that dovecot.conf needs to be readable by the users will execute it directly.
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