I was trying to figure out how the use postgresql for authentication, but the packages I'm finding get me a little confused.

There is a courier-authpostgresql package in unstable.
There is also a series of courier-imap-xxxx (mysql) package that seem to explicity do authentication for imap sessions.


what does the first one do?
aren't they the same?

I mean, wouldn't you just create one authentication process for any server/client based access (imap, ssl-imap, pop, ssl-pop) and keep it simple?

My guess is that there are either some package changes taking place, or I'm really not understanding what Courier really does. I thought it was essientially a IMAP/POP server (like uw-imap) but with the capabilities of virtual hosting by keeping everything in it's own directories (rather than /etc/passwd based user directories like uw-imap).

In case you couldn't tell. I'm trying to migrate from uw-imap because I want to do the virtual hosting if possible. Ideally I would like to use postgresql as the backbone for this because I can also use this database as a postfix table lookup tool.
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