[Dovecot] Capturing credentials for imap sync

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 07:54 +1100, Master Abi wrote:
> Hi List
> 
> All the imap sync apps I could find requires the username /password 
> credentails to be known before a sync occurs. I have Dovecot using ldap 
> acting as a nearline backup mail server to MS Exchange. Every hour 
> imapsync syncs mail between Exchange and Dovecot. This all works fine 
> becuase the users credentials are known, but when new users are added I 
> would like the process to work seemless like this:

How about using master users instead?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers

You can also limit them to be allowed only from specific IPs:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets

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