[wplug] double-authentication for IMAP and SMTP-AUTH
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 13 11:15:05 EST 2004
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:37:58 -0500
Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:31:36 -0500, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:16:18 -0500 (EST)
> > Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm [eternally] trying to get IMAP working on my system here, and the big
> > > problem (as per our discussion a few weeks ago) is SMTP AUTH. Now, it
> > > seems like everyone in the world uses SASL for authentication, but SASL
> > > seems to literally not work for any other application ever, except for
> > > Cyrus IMAP.
> >
> > FWIW, I have a fear that one day I'll reboot my server due to
> > a kernel update or what have you, and SMTP AUTH won't work with
> > my Sendmail configuration anymore ...
> >
> > And why, because getting it to work right was easy, but keeping
> > it working in the past has been a real head ache. Granted, 98%
> > of the time it does work for me, but two times in the past
> > I've had to reconfigure it.
> >
> > And Bill, I don't want to hear anything about why I should
> > use Postfix. :)
> >
>
> I don't know if postfix has this option/patch or not but you can look
> look for a smtp-after-imap feature. I use qmail and there are patches
> that will allow relaying only after a successfull auth against imap or
> pop3. This way there is only one user/pass combo and you can use
> virtual users so there are no shell accounts.
I keep wondering how plausable it would be to write a PAM module
to replace SASL.
--
Tom Rhodes
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