-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wade Smart wrote: > Im trying to clarify if I understand correctly about authorizing users. > > "The simplest login method is sending the user login info in plain > text and allowing access only to users that already have UNIX access > (ie. in /etc/passwd) to the machine dovecot is running on." > > Im using fetchmail postfix dovecot on my own personal computer to get > my mail from two servers. What Im wanting to understand is, is this > saying that since I am already a user on my own system, that by using > /etc/passwd that I would use my username and password in say > thunderbird to login to dovecot to get my mail?
Yes. AFAIK that's dovecot's default configuration, so you don't have to change anything and it should just work. Patrick. - -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: E883A005 https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIve347yMg/OiDoAURAguLAKCCDaC/4551Xfp9o095azry/+Ug7wCeKy+V 1nG328B4F8jgNooH7JTk0sc= =dWHs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
