Auteur: Marc Perkel Date: CC: 'Exim-users' Sujet: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?
Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
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> On Aug 2, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>> How do you get Exim to talk to a Dovecot backend.
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> You have exim access the same files/database
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> http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/Authentication >
> Password Databases
> ================
> passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar (using getpwnam() function)
> shadow: /etc/shadow or similiar (using getspnam() function)
> pam: Pluggable Authentication Modules
> passwd-file: /etc/passwd-like file in specified location
> ldap: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> mysql: MySQL database.
> pgsql: PostgreSQL database.
> bsdauth: BSD authentication
> vpopmail: External software used to handle virtual domains
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> User Databases
> ============
> passwd: /etc/passwd or similiar (using getpwnam() function)
> passwd-file: /etc/passwd-like file in specified location
> ldap: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
> mysql: MySQL database.
> pgsql: PostgreSQL database.
> static: Static UID and GID, home directory from given template
> vpopmail: External software used to handle virtual domains
>
> None of the above.
