On 14.6.2013, at 22.22, Ben Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > The complexities associated with authentication will be the most > difficult part (at least if you want to build something reusable).
Dovecot has a pretty easily usable auth server that talks pretty simple authentication protocol, and can be also configured to be available via TCP. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design/AuthProtocol Also an even simpler way: Just run "doveadm auth test username password" and see if it returns 0.
