[Dovecot] (no subject)

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Fri Sep 2 07:18:08 EEST 2005


On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Phillip Needham wrote:

> I am trying to get away from courier imap because it is flaky the way it
> uses FAM (or gamin in my case), and the developers seem to have a chip on
> their collective shoulder, and it is too complex. I found dovecot because
> it is ships with CentOS 4 (ie Red Hat Enterprise 4). It looks like just
> what I need: simple, fast. But I can't use it! I can't authenticate. If
> any of these statements were untrue, I would use it happily:
>
> o it doesn't support simple bind authentication against LDAP
> o I don't want to make passwords readable, and this version (0.99.14)
> doesn't support SSHA anyway
> o it won't talk to the saslauthd I already have configured
> o I can't find how to implement a new auth module for dovecot

Just use PAM.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams


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