Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Frank Cusack
IP-based access is totally fine if that part of your network is physically secure. It sure solves a lot of headaches. On 2/10/10 10:22 AM +0100 Per-Erik Persson wrote: Well, what you describe would be the correct and security aware way of doing it. However since I am still testing i just did

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Per-Erik Persson wrote: By adding the IP of the server handling the maildeliveries to the group called mail-writers which has permissions on every users Maildir. Ah, got it, thanks. - -- Steffen Kaiser -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Per-Erik Persson
Well, what you describe would be the correct and security aware way of doing it. However since I am still testing i just did it the quick and dirty way. By adding the IP of the server handling the maildeliveries to the group called mail-writers which has permissions on every users Maildir. So

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Per-Erik Persson wrote: I now have dovecots deliver (1.1.?)up and running and delivering mails to maildirs located on the AFS So if anyone is wondering, I would say that AFS works as a backend for storing emails without any u

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and AFS SOLVED

2010-02-10 Thread Per-Erik Persson
Sorry for the fuzz on the thread earlier. I now have dovecots deliver (1.1.?)up and running and delivering mails to maildirs located on the AFS So if anyone is wondering, I would say that AFS works as a backend for storing emails without any ugly patches.