[Dovecot] Postfix-TLS/SASL-rimap

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Sep 22 22:28:37 EEST 2004


On 21.9.2004, at 23:51, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

>> Why not just use sql/ldap/whatever?
>
> I may do so.  I'm trying to setup our mail environment with as little 
> overhead as possible.  At the moment, Postfix and Dovecot are 
> retrieving user information from the passwd file.  I wanted to add 
> TLS/SASL access for remote clients to send via our Postfix server - 
> and I didn't want to have to maintain a parallel user database just 
> for that.  But I may look at setting up an SQL/LDAP backend for these 
> services - I didn't see the need with our small user pool.

Hmm. I think I misunderstood your questions then. You're trying to make 
Postfix authenticate against Dovecot IMAP server? That works of course, 
rimap sends normal IMAP login command. I think. I've only read the 
manual page.
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