[Dovecot] Dovecot auth user lookup patch for maildrop

[Ed W]

Oh, fantastic!

I use Maildrop for quite a few things and I'm reluctant to convert (was
considering all kinds of loopy options including some perl based custom
delivery tool...).  However, it's been annoying me to drag this extra
baggage around

Please submit to the maildrop developers - I hope they won't be too
reluctant to consider at least dropping it in as a compile time option

Good luck

Ed W


mr.maX wrote:
> Hi,
>
> recently I started using maildrop as a MDA doing lightweight filtering 
> in a Postfix/Dovecot mail server combo. Only thing missing was the 
> fact that maildrop couldn't perform user lookups against a user 
> database that was already being served by Dovecot (for smtp auth in 
> Postfix and for imap access obviously) in order to easily determinate 
> proper mailbox location and home directory of my "virtual" users when 
> delivering e-mails. I wanted to avoid having another authentication 
> daemon running (Courier Authlib) that would be serving this data to 
> maildrop, so I've spent some time to write an extension for maildrop 
> that would allow it to do user lookups directly against Dovecot in a 
> similar way how they are done by Dovecot's LDA deliver. For everyone 
> that are using maildrop in a similar setup that may be interested in 
> this extension, a patch against maildrop version 2.0.4 can be 
> downloaded from the following location: 
> http://www.max.rs/ozone/maildrop-2.0.4-dovecotauth.patch.txt
>
> When this patch is applied, maildrop will be extended with another 
> command line option "-t", which can be used to specify the location of 
> Dovecot's master auth socket that will be used when performing user 
> lookups. There's a readme file (README.dovecotauth) together with 
> patch with a little bit more information regarding the use of this 
> extension. I hope that some of you may find my modification to 
> maildrop useful.
>
> -- 
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> Marko Njezic - mr.maX @ MAX Interactive corp.
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