On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 18:24, Helmut Zeilinger wrote:

Hi,

i am new to dovecot and i don't know what i can do with the "auth_executable" setting in the "dovecot.conf" file.

It's simply the path for Dovecot's dovecot-auth binary, if you had placed it in non-standard location.

Can i invoke an external program for authentification? If yes, is there a description what this program/script has to do?

No, there's no way to do that yet. You could write a plugin for dovecot-auh to allow it though.