At 10PM +0300 on 14/06/13 you (Timo Sirainen) wrote: > 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
See also the Perl module Authen::SASL::Authd, which will authenticate against dovecot-auth (only with PLAIN, unfortunately, but unless you're willing to put in a lot of effort most forms of web auth come out equivalent to PLAIN). Ben
