[Dovecot] configuration

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jun 10 18:29:55 EEST 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 03:06, Tom Allison wrote:
> I supposed I should only settle for ssl based connections (imaps/pops) 
> but I will be open to digest-md5 if I could.

If SSL is already enabled, the only gain from DIGEST-MD5 or CRAM-MD5 is
that server never actually sees the plaintext password. So it's mostly
useful if you use the same password in multiple places and don't really
trust your server.

> I'm also curious to see how I can use pgsql authentication with dovecot. 

I guess you already saw
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql ? That explains how I
configured them.

>   I think this would be great to work with since I'm basing all my 
> postfix settings around postgresql as well.  But for now I'm not sure 
> how to use postfix authentication with the file directories I'll need to 
> use for the maildirs (and procmail!).

File directories?

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