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From: Hasse Hagen Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Henry Baragar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [binc] checkvpw (vmailmgr) and auth_pop (qmail-ldap) and Binc IMAP and qmail-pop3d
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 19:04:28 +0200
And no wrapper?"Henry" == Henry Baragar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Henry> Hello all, This is going to be a long message that maybe Henry> should be placed on the Life with Binc IMAP wiki.
Yes. Definitely :-)
Henry> 6. bincimapd & auth_pop ========================
Henry> authpop with bincimapd should work just like it does with Henry> qmail-pop3d. It should be invoked in a command line that Henry> looks something like: ....\ auth_pop \ bincimapd Once Henry> again, notice that there is no maildir as there is for Henry> qmail-pop3d.
Maybe :-), but it doesn't work without the patch Andreas send to the list. I have just tried with path = Maildir in bincimap.conf, and no maildir parameter after bincimapd in the run file. It fails. I cannot explain why. I've only got it to work like I wrote in the Wiki
Anyway, could you please run it again for us and send us the strace and log file so that I can figure out why it is not working as posted?
Thanks, Henry
Henry> Ideally, qmail-pop3d and bincimapd should have the same Henry> interface with respect to authentication and directory Henry> selection so that they can be interchanged simply by Henry> changing qmail-pop3d to bincimapd (and vice versa) Henry> regardless of the authentication program being used. This Henry> probably means that the maildir (depot in Binc terminology) Henry> should be passed through environment variables (and not on Henry> the command line) and that a better mechanism is required Henry> to make local and virtual users more similar (as is done Henry> for ldap).
Henry> Given that the interface to qmail-pop3d is not likely going Henry> to change in the near future, a design decision needs to be Henry> revisited for Binc IMAP, namely: - Should bincimapd's Henry> interface be changed to align it better with qmail-pop3d; Henry> or, - Should bincimapd's interface be left alone and the Henry> differences with qmail-pop3d be better documented. Its not Henry> clear to me which of these two alternatives is the better Henry> one.
I think I like the better documentation more. I don't think that a
checkpassword program should decide how varios daemons should be configured
Thanks for help, and this good documentation on checkpassword interface
/Hasse
-- Henry Baragar Principal, Technical Architecture 416-453-5626 Instantiated Software Inc. http://www.instantiated.ca
