[Dovecot] Vpopmail auth with vchkpw

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jan 19 17:57:22 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 07:26 -0600, Rick Romero wrote:
> vchkpw sets the 'connection-type' based on the variable TCPLOCALPORT
> If that's not set, it defaults to pop.  What this does in my environment
> is cause someone who is denied POP access to also not be able to use
> IMAP (or webmail) because that variable is not set.
> 
> Is it possible to have Dovecot set that variable, based on the port the
> user connected to, prior to calling vchkpw?

Unfortunately Dovecot doesn't currently pass the port information to
dovecot-auth, and I think it's a bit too large change to do for v1.0
release. Dovecot does set SERVICE=imap or SERVICE=pop3 though, so it
would be possible for you to write a glue script as the checkpassword:

#!/bin/sh

if [ $SERVICE = imap ]; then
  export TCPLOCALPORT=143
else
  export TCPLOCALPORT=110
fi
exec /usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw

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