Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Saturday, April 24, 2004 at 16:59:36 (+0200), Andrzej Filip wrote: ]
>
>>Subject: [Exim] lmtp transport: verifying address (LMTP callout)
>>
>>Is it possible to make exim verify recipient addresses delivered via
>>lmtp (socket) transport ? [LMTP callout]
>>
>>I would like to make exim verify addresses delivered to Cyrus IMAP when
>>accepting "RCPT TO:" command.
>
>
> I find it a lot easier to go the other way around -- i.e. make the
> mailer (or the system it runs upon) authoritative for which mailboxes
> exist and which don't, and then I use a small patch to Cyrus IMAP which
> allows it to automatically create INBOXes if they don't exist (using the
> autocreatequota feature).
>
> The easiest way this can be done is to simply create normal unix
> accounts for every user and then run saslauthd with "-a getpwent".
>
> For a virtual domain server this still works fine if the user's account
> name has his or her domain name right in it (though you may have to make
> sure your system is prepared to handle longer usernames ;-), provided
> you can modify the way exim validates usernames by having it include the
> "@" and the domain name portion when it does the username lookup.
How hard would it be to create verify_pam_account option ?
[Check account "a" in pam service "s" ]
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