[Dovecot] installing dovecot on Mac OS X

[Alan Schmitt]

* Timo Sirainen (tss at iki.fi) wrote:
> On 20.10.2004, at 20:34, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> 
> >- What authentification method would you recommend? OS X does not keep
> >  the users and passwords in /etc/passwd, so I'm using passwd-file
> >  method at the moment. I'm wondering how good a choice this is.
> 
> I think it does update /etc/passwd? At least my userid is there. You 
> should be able to use PAM as passdb, and passwd as userdb.

Unfortunately it does not seem to update it. I see very few things in 
/etc/passwd.

In fact, the header from the file says:

top% cat /etc/passwd 
##
# User Database
# 
# Note that this file is consulted when the system is running in single-user
# mode.  At other times this information is handled by one or more of:
# lookupd DirectoryServices  
# By default, lookupd gets information from NetInfo, so this file will 
# not be consulted unless you have changed lookupd's configuration.
# This file is used while in single user mode.
#
# To use this file for normal authentication, you may enable it with
# /Applications/Utilities/Directory Access.


> ...
> >  however I could not find a imapd to call directly. Is this possible
> >  with dovecot?
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

Great, thanks a lot.

> 
> >- I see that the maiboxes created under the Maildir directory are of 
> >the
> >  form .INBOX and .Sent. Could it be possible (maybe using namespaces, 
> >I
> >  have not really understood how they work) to store them without the
> >  leading dot?
> 
> Not yet. It's the Maildir++ standard. I may implement something else 
> some day.

OK, this is fine, thanks.

I have a question about procmail, but I'll ask it in another message.

Alan Schmitt

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