Diego Ledesma wrote:
Hello.
I have Ubuntu Server 7.04 acting as a mail server with postfix 2.3.8.
<http://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.
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Yes, dovecot can be configured to authenticate system users.
See the dovecot docs for how to do this.
LDAP is a backend storage system, vaguely similar to SQL.
Some systems use LDAP as a storage backend for system users,
but you don't need to concern yourself with that, just
configure dovecot to authenticate system users.
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Noel Jones
