[Dovecot] pop before smtp

F. Even dovecotlists at elitists.org
Sat Mar 5 23:10:20 EET 2005


Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fr, 2005-03-04 at 05:51 -0600, F. Even wrote:
> 
>>I'm using the latest version of dovecot on my FreeBSD 4.x box with 
>>OpenPKG to keep other services up to date.  Now...I'm able to get pbsmtp 
>>to allow relaying through postfix on this server using UW IMAP, but I 
>>would like to get dovecot working with relaying...but pbsmtp is not 
>>adding the ip when I uncomment the dovecot section after I authenticate. 
> 
> 
> I don't know how postfix checks the pbsmtp thing, but IIRC dovecot has
> the ability to write into a database when people log in, so I think
> pop-before-smtp could be done without log parsing. You might want to
> review the mailing list archives (at gmane.org) and possibly you can get
> rid of pbsmtp.

I guess a link would've been helpful in my reply:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.dovecot/4750/match=postfix+auth


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