[Dovecot] Different authentication for pop3 and imap

sh1ny justin at ma3x.net
Sun Oct 12 12:08:05 EEST 2008


Thanks, ill try that :)

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:44 AM, sh1ny wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to run different authentications for pop3 and imap ? 
>> What i need is to give access to some clients to pop3 only and to 
>> other to imap only. I'm using postgres as a backend. What i actually 
>> need is 2 separate queries for userdb, one to select with "WHERE 
>> imap_access = 1" and the other one with "WHERE pop3_access = 1" ( 
>> that's just an example ). I'm using 1.1.2 but i plan on upgrading to 
>> either 1.1.4 or 1.2.
>
> You could use something like:
>
> password_query = \
>   select .. where .. and '%s' = 'pop3' and pop3_access = 1 \
>   union select .. where .. and '%s' = 'imap' and imap_access= 1
>



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