Hi again all!
I've been doing some thinking, and was hoping to pass this by everyone.
Currently, almost every mail system out there supports some means or
another of authentication. If you change systems, things can suck majorly.
I am looking at writing a daemon that will do the following:
1. Take username/password/other credentials supplied at login.
2. If the username exists in the preferred authentication
database/file/mechanism, authenticate, otherwise check the secondary
methods and (assuming there is a match), update the preferred and (if
specified) invalidate the old method.
This wouldn't be a DBMail specific thing, but would be a great help to
those of us who have been silly enough to start with users in
/etc/passwd + /etc/shadow for mail (myself included).
I'd also look at writing something for Postfix that would allow it to do
SMTP AUTH from DBMail's user database.
Chris
