On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:54:56AM -0500, Peter Clark wrote:
auth_passdb = pam auth_user = root
I thought you didn't need to be root to authenticate with PAM? If you can do this as dovecot-auth, it will be more secure.
Almost everything works fine, although I'm concerned about 'imap_listen = *'. Is there any way to restrict this to just localhost? I tried 'imap_listen = localhost', but that didn't seem to work. (Ditto with 127.0.0.1). (The other
If you set it to localhost, then you can only access mail from the one machine. I was under the impression that you were trying to access mail from more than one machine on your LAN. If not, then I'm not sure what IMAP is doing for you.
I haven't tried setting it to the loopback interface. I did set it to the LAN interface, but that eliminated loopback. Since I want both, I set it back to *. That means that it's also listening on the Internet interface, but the firewall and permissions are both blocking any connections there, so we're probably pretty secure.
Regarding the cheatsheet: I got the idea from McKusick's site at www.mostgraveconcern.com. It seems to be a good way of packing the maximum info into the minimum space. Sort of like an extra-terse man page. A series of cheatsheets for specific implementations might be the fastest, easiest way of supplementing the existing documentation. Since it consists only of the config files without comments, perhaps other people could edit their files and contribute them? Particularly for unusual setups?
Also, if you find a solution to a specific problem, please consider adding it to the troubleshooting guide on the Wiki.
Bob Hall