[Exim] Re: About running the whole mail system as 'exim'

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Author: John Henders
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Re: About running the whole mail system as 'exim'
In <E13UmWt-000855-00@???> Nigel.Metheringham@??? (Nigel Metheringham) writes:

>If you need IMAP as well then life would probably be a little more
>interesting, but doable as long as the layout was saneish. One
>definitely possibility would be to have a checkpasswd program for the
>qmail pop program which took a username like <mailbox>:<username> and
>then authed against username and changed to mailbox.


If you need IMAP, check out the Courier IMAP package.

http://www.inter7.com/courierimap

It works from Maildir directories so it works fine with Exim. It has
many different ways to authenticate, PAM, most DBMs, LDAP, MySQL and
others, and the authentication is done from a daemon which caches
replies.

Only caveat it that there are some IMAP clients that don't follow the
IMAP rfc 100% that can have problems with Courier.


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