Thanks Paul. I'm looking into it. I'll let you know how it goes. I did learn that dbmail uses its "dbmail-users" script to add or delete users. At the time the script creates the user, a shadow user is created in the "dbmail" database to hold the emails of the created user.
Regards, LelandJ Paul Stevens-2 wrote: > > lelandj wrote: >> I configured DBmail to use PostgreSQL, rather than MySQL, when I >> configured >> her four or five years ago, so my email is stored in a PostgreSQL >> database >> named "dbmail". I see your working configuration touches very many >> configuration files, especially MySQL configuartion files. Is that going >> to >> create any kind of problem? > > > Bloody hell. KISS. Use rimap. > > On debian: > /etc/defaults/saslauthd > > START=yes > MECHANISMS="rimap -O localhost" > > /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf > > mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN ANONYMOUS > pwcheck_method: saslauthd > > And that is all she wrote. Postfix will use saslauthd for > authentication, saslauthd will use an imap connection > for authentication. Done. No need to worry about the imap server used, > or the encryption of the passwords therein. > > RTFM: saslauthd(8) > > cheers. > > > > >> >> Is there some simple way to configure sasl to work with PostgreSQL >> DBmail, >> DBmail Administator, and Postfix? I know Linux is very modular, which is >> both good and bad. >> >> It would be interested to know how DBmail Administrator currently >> authenticates users. Is the DBmail username - password pair a PostgreSQL >> user, a field in one of the "dbmail" tables or something else. It >> appears >> the username - password pair are independent of the Fedora username - >> password pair created when a new user is added to Fedora 6. >> >> Also, any hints on where the DBmail configuration file lives on Fedora 6. >> It might give some clue as to how thing are configure. It has been a >> long >> time since I've been into DBmail; because, there have been no problems. >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> >> >> Nobody said you should go away from postfix/dbmail :-) >> Dovecot can work as proxy which is also good for security >> >> For relay you need SASL and dovecot can do this with >> much more features as dbmail/postfix alone > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl > NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Using-sasl-with-dbmail-and-md5-login-tp27468767p27473147.html Sent from the dbmail users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
