Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP direct…

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Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 09:29:48AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Exim can not read the external database for what I have in mind. There
> is no direct access to the database. The only way to veryify against the
> database is with an IMAP/POP call.


In which case, I suggest you have a little bit of coding to do. The code for
the plain authenticator is nice and simple, and the spec has good docs on
how to write the super-components. Remember to pass any challenge through
in advance (the cyrus_sasl.c driver may help you here).

Cheers

MBM

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