[Dovecot] Dovecot Local Delivery Agent

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Aug 9 02:03:53 EEST 2004


On 8.8.2004, at 13:57, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> >> Support for PAM
> >
> > I'm not sure how exactly this would work. LDA doesn't use any
> > passwords, so it would have to make a PAM call with some dummy
> > password. And that would create a two second delay with most PAM
> > implementations.
>
> Maybe I am all wrong here (you are all so clever on this list), but
> isn't PAM divided into 4 different areas exactly for the purpose of
> using only some of them?

Oh, right, I didn't think of it that way. I haven't done much with PAM 
myself.

Anyway, I'm still hoping someone else to do the LDA so I don't have to 
worry about it.
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