Diego Ledesma wrote:
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?.
yes. First install dovecot and configure it to use your
db/backend/whatever. Note that you don't need to enable dovecot as a
pop/imap server. you can get help on the dovecot mailing list if you
have problems.
once dovecot is configured, read
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
to setup postfix. Make sure your postfix was built with dovecot (sasl)
support (so don't use an "ancient" postfix).
