Thanks Ben,
I'm using an Ubuntu Server OS (10.04) and it seems that the latest
package they provide is 1.2.9.
Do you know if anyone has had any success getting a Dovecot 2 package on
this Ubuntu distro and how they went about it (Not comfortable compiling
sources at this point!!)?
Tim
On 21/12/12 00:21, Ben Morrow wrote:
At 10PM +0000 on 20/12/12 Tim Smith wrote:
Just trying to consolidate my knowledge of Dovecot and I want to
understand various things rather than just key out lines of config in
dovecot.conf with the hope of it working.
What I wanted to clarify is my understanding the "socket listen" section
of the config file. From my limited understanding, this section details
how other processes can access the userdb defined in Dovecot. The master
socket is used for "internal" processes which is mainly dovecot-lda so
that when Dovecot receives mail it knows where to deliver it and client
is defined for "external" processes, for example Postfix who would use
the info to determine if a user existed. Would you say this is a fair
(albeit) dumbed down!!) synopsis of sockets and their purpose?
Your mention of 'socket listen' and 'master' auth sockets suggests you
are using Dovecot 1.x. That description is pretty-much correct for 1.x,
however you should upgrade to 2.x as soon as you reasonably can, since
1.x is no longer supported. See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services#auth
for a description of the socket types available with Dovecot 2.
[The statement there that 'client' sockets can safely be exposed to the
entire world, including over inet sockets, is not entirely true. AFAIK
there is no rate limiting, so an exposed 'client' socket is a password
oracle and should therefore be somewhat protected. The risk is
approximately equivalent to an unshadowed password file, with the
encrypted passwords exposed.]
Ben
