[Dovecot] dovecot, vpopmail and djb's tcpserver

[Lasse Danielsen]

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 at procontrol.fi
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces at 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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