[Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

DINH Viêt Hoà dinh.viet.hoa at free.fr
Thu May 24 18:26:15 EEST 2007


On 5/24/07, Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 08:33 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
>
> > It might, but the server doesn't.
> > Many IMAP servers do not allow users to have SSH access on the box, but
> > prefer locking them down, e.g. with Webinterfaces or IMAP. Also, Dovecot
> > has other ways of authentification, e.g. Virtual Users.
>
> You need to start distinguishing between "SSH the protocol" and "SSH the
> shell implementation", afaict the protocol should allow any use like
> this without ever granting access to a shell, like sftp-server etc.

However, when you are planning any extra-non-standard-features on an
imap server, the server can fits the needs by implementing anything
required.

-- 
DINH Viêt Hoà


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