Fellow dovecot'ers,
I'm just getting started with Dovecot, and I'm not a programmer, so please be gentle. ;-)
THE PLATFORM: NetBSD 3.0/SPARC, Postfix 2.3-RC8, current Dovecot RC (I forgot the number). Maildir-type directories.
THE GOAL: To accommodate authenticated (remote) POP3 users with APOP or SSL/TLS, and allow users on the internal network (192.168.x.x) to just use basic POP3 without worrying about authentication.
QUESTIONS:
(1) Does the dovecot master daemon have to be running in order to call pop3- login from inetd, in response to POP connection attempts? If so, it could be a problem. I'm getting this error when I try to start the thing.
featherweb: {339} /usr/local/sbin/dovecot Fatal: listen(110) failed: Address already in use featherweb: {340}
(2) For apop authentication, how do I go about generating the shared secret file locally, for each user? Is there a script that came with dovecot or...?
(3) Is there a trick, similar to postfix's 'postconf -n,' that will give a condensed output of dovecot's configuration file?
(4) I'm currently using sasl auth for Postfix's SMTP auth function. How difficult is it to use Dovecot for the same thing?
(5) GAAAAHHHHH! (Just on general principles, based on the hours I've spent trying to get everything working).
Thanks in advance.
Bruce 'Quietly Making Noise' Lane Blue Feather Technologies