Author: Jonathan Vanasco Date: To: Marc Perkel CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?
On Aug 2, 2005, at 12:29 PM, 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.
Last I checked, Dovecot is an IMAP server, not an authentication service
If you really insist on doing something like that, you should convince
the Dovecot development team to do what Courier did -- and split their
authentication services into a separate project that the IMAP server
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