[Dovecot] help needed with dovecot authentication

[peter lawrie]

On 28 February 2013 21:42, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> Hi Harald
Thanks, but I'm not clear what you mean.
I'd be happy with authentication to the imap server (without the users
having access) if only I could find a configuration howto that was actually
relevant to what I want to do and the release levels I am at. I've already
messed up by using out of date configurations found by googling.

Simon - Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think I want to introduce
yet another piece of software.
The business owner specified what he wanted and his users are familiar with
older versions of usermin and horde.
Peter