On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 00:05 -0700, Ian R. Justman wrote:
Hi, all.
I have successfully deployed the code I wrote to handle Post.Office password hashes. However, I had to implement it as a hack to password-scheme.c. I'd like to implement it as a module so I don't have to hack Dovecot whenever a new release comes out. However, I had a few thoughts:
- I used Dovecot's own MD5 routines in my implementation because I know how they behave. However, would it make sense to distribute the C sources for the MD5 routines, or would it make far more sense to have a Dovecot build tree already (so I can use Dovecot's function library)?
If you're using the public MD5 functions from md5.h, you don't need a build tree. You'll just need the md5.h. And you'll need password-scheme.h in any case. Those headers can be installed and some distributions have them in dovecot-devel package.
- Is there good documentation for Dovecot's plugin API? I need it so I can figure out how to write the parts which the main program call so then the code can be used as a plugin.
The plugin API is really simple. At startup it calls