[Dovecot] Postfix user map

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Mon Jan 9 17:50:49 EET 2012


Am 09.01.2012 16:46, schrieb Noel:
> 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?

jep ,it does, i was glad having/testing this feature in dove 2 release,
avoiding
overquota backscatter etc

> 
> 
> 
>   -- Noel Jones


-- 
Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

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