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

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Author: Marc Perkel
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CC: 'Exim-users'
Subject: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?


Jakob Hirsch wrote:

>Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>Dovecot uses multiple back ends. I am using more than one. I am also
>>using the standard shadow/passwd files. And I am developing a third
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>Wow, facts, after all.
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>>Do you want to write an example of how I would authenticate against both
>>a Linuxconf and a passwd/shadow file system? I'm not convinced Exim can
>>do it. But a simple IMAP call could.
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>Exim is quite flexible. untested, but the concept should be clear:
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>server_condition = ${if and{ \
>  {!eq {$2}{}} \
>  {!eq {$3}{}} \
>  {crypteq {$3}{\
>    ${extract {1}{:}{\
>      ${lookup {${extract {1}{@%!}{$2}}} lsearch\
>        {/etc/vmail/shadow.${extract {2}{@%!}{$2}}}}}}}\
>  {1}\
>  {... the same with pam}}

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>This is really not rocket science.
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Go ahead and finish it. Let's see how complex it really is.

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