Well, what is proper and not can be discussed, I'm sure. I prefer using the "botch" as you call it. I assume support for some kind of external authentication mechanism need to be supported in dovecot for pop/imap-before-smtp. Afaik, vchkpw is one of many such mechanism. I was just asking if this had been done before, or if it's currently unsupported.
Regards,
Lasse Danielsen
-----Original Message----- From: dovecot-bounces@procontrol.fi [mailto:dovecot-bounces@procontrol.fi]On Behalf Of Matthias Andree
The proper way to authenticate roaming users is SMTP AUTH and not a botch like SMTP-after-POP/IMAP (which I assume you're trying to do as otherwise, the IMAP/POP3 server isn't concerned with relaying mail). SMTP AUTH works independently of Dovecot or BincIMAP.
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