[Dovecot] Thinking about switching from courier-imap to Dovecot: 2 simple questions

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On Wednesday 2005-December-14 12:54, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:03 +0100, kadafax wrote:
> > 1. Is it possible for dovecot to use the bind mecanism against ldap
> > for authentification purpose. My main concern is to avoid the
> > clear-text password in the dovecot-ldap.conf file. With
> > courier-imap, the process simply bind to the ldap tree with the
> > users's supplied login/password. No need for a special
> > authentification purpose user.
>
> Only with PAM + pam_ldap module currently.

I'm planning a migration to nss_ldap ... any reason why that wouldn't 
work?
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