[Dovecot] Postfix user map

Noel noeldude at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 17:46:44 EET 2012


On 1/9/2012 9:37 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Am 09.01.2012 16:32, schrieb Noel:
>> On 1/9/2012 8:43 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/f562bcaca215 implements
>>> "postmap" type sockets, which follow Postfix's tcp_table(5)
>>> protocol. So you can ask:
>>>
>>> get user at domain
>>>
>>> and Dovecot answers one of:
>>>
>>>  - 200 1
>>>  - 500 User not found
>>>  - 400 Internal failure
>>>
>>> So you can use this with Postfix:
>>>
>>> virtual_mailbox_maps = tcp:127.0.0.1:1234
>>>
>>> With Dovecot you can enable it with:
>>>
>>> service auth {
>>>   inet_listener postmap {
>>>     listen = 127.0.0.1
>>>     port = 1234
>>>   }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Anyone have ideas if this could be improved, or used for some
>>> other purposes?
>>
>> Cool.
>> Does this just check for valid user existence, or can it also check
>> for over-quota (and respond 500 overquota I suppose)?
> if you use dove lmtp with postfix it allready works "like that way"
> for over quota


That can reject over-quota users during the postfix SMTP conversation?



  -- Noel Jones



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