[Dovecot] help needed with dovecot authentication

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Feb 28 23:42:54 EET 2013


Am 28.02.2013 22:34, schrieb Simon Brereton:
> On 28 Feb 2013 21:51, "peter lawrie" <peter.lawrie at glendiscovery.co.uk>
>> I thought I knew what I was doing before I took this one on (I have
>> configured and manage a dozen centos servers), but this one is making my
>> head spin.
>> Yours in hope!
>> Peter Lawrie
> 
> Peter
> 
> Dovecot/postfix will need their own db, different from horde.  (Although I
> suppose it's possible to add tables too it, but I'd hold it for you risky).
> 
> Several how-to's will give you sample db structures.  However check out
> automx.org

and if you do it samrt horde or whatever webmail does
not have a user/password table and uses instead authentication
directly to the imap-server and so you have

* one single place with users
* no usertable accessable from a web-application

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