Re: Help to setup a Unix socket based authentication server for dovecot in Python

On 08-13-2021 8:19 am, Sherin A wrote: the default authentication mechanism is not suitable for me becuase each domain will have different system users and different location for mail storage . So I need to create a custom authentication mechanism using python . There is an option to use Key-value authentication (dict) database via socket as per

Or another option... Using SQL would allow you to have key-value, you can have different mail location per domain / user, and dovecot can talk to SQL over TCP or unix:socket. You wouldn't need to make a script, and when users are stored in SQL (if you are using postfix) postfix can talk to that same SQL table to know which users are valid for accepting email.