On 2012-06-24 4:37 PM, Jürgen Pabel <[email protected]> wrote:
I am implementing a plugin (for the pop3/imap process) that requires some data to provided from the authentication phase (a derivative of the password). For that, I have now implemented a passdb plugin that generates this data and I would like to "pass" this data down to the mail process (pop3/imap) via extra_fields in the reply of the authentication. The general idea is that my custom passdb plugin calculates the data, sets the extra_field and returns some error (authentication was not successful) so that the "real" passdb backend can be invoked to "really" validate the authentication data.
What specifically is the *purpose* of this?
I hope you consider my proposal to be reasonable. If desired, I could implement this myself and provide a patch for merging (based on 2.0.x). If my proposal is generally unfavored, it would be great if any alternative approaches for my situation were suggested. Thanks.
I think it is usually preferred that you do things like this against either the current shipping/stable branch (2.1.x), or even hg (2.2)... much better chance that it would be accepted.
-- Best regards, Charles
