Is there anywhere an example of how this would be setup? I understand the use of a service account which I already setup but I can't figure out how to use this service account to retrieve information and authenticate users.
Thanks! Best regards, David Wells. El 02/10/2019 a las 04:29, Aki Tuomi escribió: > > > On 1.10.2019 17.33, David Wells - Alfavinil S.A. via dovecot wrote: >> Good morning. >> >> I was just reading >> https://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP/PasswordLookups and found >> the following statement >>> When using LDA <https://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA> and static userdb, >>> deliver can check if destination user exists. With auth binds this >>> check isn't possible. >> >> Is this still relevant? Is there a workaround? It seems like using >> dovecots lmtp in an active directory environment is not possible, is >> this correct? >> > You cannot check user existence with auth binds because auth bind > requires user credentials. > > This is why I suggested you use a "service user" in LDAP to perform > the database lookups instead of auth binds. You can still authenticate > your users using kerberos. > > Aki >
