[Dovecot] Two passwords: One for Dovecot IMAP and One for Dovecot SASL? Is it possible?
Greetings,
Can Dovecot can handle separate authentication for receiving mail
(IMAPS) and sending mail (SMTPS)? In the past, we used Dovecot IMAP
for the receiving part and Cyrus SASL for the sending part. This
allowed us to use two passwords with mail. Cyrus has grown too old
and isn't useful anymore. Can Dovecot give us this functionality:
two passwords, one for IMAP authentication and one for SASL
authentication?
If so, could you point me in the right direction to get this working?
Thanks in advance,
A
On Qua, 14 Out 2009, Art Gray - Razorpoint wrote:
Can Dovecot can handle separate authentication for receiving mail
(IMAPS) and sending mail (SMTPS)? In the past, we used Dovecot IMAP
for the receiving part and Cyrus SASL for the sending part. This
allowed us to use two passwords with mail. Cyrus has grown too old
and isn't useful anymore. Can Dovecot give us this functionality:
two passwords, one for IMAP authentication and one for SASL
authentication?
Dovecot is only an IMAP server, it does not support SMTP and is not
used while sending e-mail.
Some SMTP servers can use Dovecot to authenticate users, but if you do
not want that, just configure your SMTP accordingly.
-- Not for human consumption.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI eduardo@kalinowski.com.br
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:18:12PM -0400, Art Gray - Razorpoint wrote:
Greetings,
Can Dovecot can handle separate authentication for receiving mail (IMAPS) and sending mail (SMTPS)? In the past, we used Dovecot IMAP for the receiving part and Cyrus SASL for the sending part. This allowed us to use two passwords with mail. Cyrus has grown too old and isn't useful anymore. Can Dovecot give us this functionality: two passwords, one for IMAP authentication and one for SASL authentication?
If so, could you point me in the right direction to get this working?
If your authentication method supports multiple passwords (eg. LDAP with authentication binding) AND you allow your users to use either password for either server (ie. you're just providing backwards compatibility, not enforcing to use different passwords), it could work just like that.
Otherwise I think you'd have to setup separate dovecot instances.
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- Art Gray - Razorpoint [2009-10-14 15:18]:
Greetings,
Can Dovecot can handle separate authentication for receiving mail (IMAPS) and sending mail (SMTPS)? In the past, we used Dovecot IMAP for the receiving part and Cyrus SASL for the sending part. This allowed us to use two passwords with mail. Cyrus has grown too old and isn't useful anymore. Can Dovecot give us this functionality:
two passwords, one for IMAP authentication and one for SASL authentication?If so, could you point me in the right direction to get this working?
What kind of server software do you use to send out messages? Do you want to use dovecot as the authentication server with that sending server? Do you want to allow your users to use both passwords for IMAP and SMTP or the passwords shall be tied to the particular service?
Please take a look at following pages
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MultipleDatabases
http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/SQL
http://wiki.dovecot.org/VariablesDovecot can use multiple sources for authentication. In your case you could just have one database for IMAP and one for SMTP. You will see that there is a variable named %s. It will expand itself to the service (imap, pop3, smtp).
Good luck.
-- -- Kirill Miazine km@krot.org
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Art Gray - Razorpoint
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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Geert Hendrickx
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Kirill Miazine