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<p>Hi,<br>
<br>
I am building a custom server platform in which dovecot is used
for imap/pop . But the default authentication mechanism is not
suitable for me becuase each domain will have different system
users and different location for mail storage . So I need to
create a custom authentication mechanism using python . There is
an option to use Key-value authentication (dict) database via
socket as per <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/dict/#complete-example-for-authenticating-via-a-unix-socket">https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/dict/#complete-example-for-authenticating-via-a-unix-socket</a><br>
<br>
<br>
The above documentation link have a sample perl script too to
send authentication to<br>
<br>
uri = proxy:/var/run/auth_proxy_dovecot/socket:somewhere<br>
<br>
So my question is how the inputs are send to the socket file ? in
which format ?<br>
<br>
How the result return ? and in which format ?<br>
<br>
Let us say I can create a python socket program that can listen to
/var/run/auth_proxy_dovecot/socket for getting the inputs from
dovecot , but what is the format<br>
<br>
Is it like the following<br>
<br>
AUTH PLAIN<br>
<br>
USER <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:test@myemail.com">test@myemail.com</a><br>
<br>
PASS mypassword<br>
<br>
<br>
I looked into the documentation and developer documentation, I am
unable to see how dovecot send the data , I can see a sample
perl for answering dict lookups. Any one have a python
alternative for it. ?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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