Hello. I have Ubuntu Server 7.04 acting as a mail server with postfix 2.3.8. Smtp authentication is currently not configured so users have to use webmail when they are outside the lan. I've been googling around for smtp athentication and found some info but it uses Cyrus which (as i heard) is quite difficult to configure. I've also found other tutorials that use Dovecot (with myslq db) which seems to be a lot easier to configure. The thing is, users are authenticated using system credentials (to create a new mail account i have to add a new user to the system, ...is this called ldap??). So, my question is, could i install dovecot and sasl using this kind of user authentication?.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
