On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:21:58 -0600
Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> i am working on a new production mailserver using smtpd for an mta
> and dovecot for serving mail. i have run into a problem where i would
> like to use the same authentication mechanism for smtpd and dovecot
> so there is only one password database to maintain.
>
> as best i can tell i need to use system accounts and virtual user
> maps to get mail to dump into separate directories. the caveat is
> getting either dovecot to understand the virtual user mapping to
> system accounts or smtpd to do smtp authentication through dovecot. i
> would rather use bsdauth than have dovecot handle authentication.
>
> i currently have smtpd setup and delivering mail fine with the
> following config
>
> ext_if = "re0"
>
> listen on lo0
> listen on $ext_if tls enable auth
>
> map "aliases" { source db "/etc/mail/aliases.db" }
> map "virtual" { source db "/etc/mail/virtual.db" }
>
> accept for local alias aliases deliver to mbox
> accept from all for virtual "virtual" deliver to maildir
> "/var/vmail/%d/%a" accept for all relay
>
> with the virtual map specified like so
>
> [email protected]: user1_dom1
> ...
> [email protected]: userN_dom1
>
> where i have added users user1_dom1 through userN_dom1 with the false
> shell to the system. all works fine with the mail delivery and relay.
>
> any insight into how i can get dovecot or smtpd to do what i want
> would be appreciated.
I've written a bsdauth module for to authenticate over pop3.
since smtpd using bsdauth - you can use it. later today I'll put it on
the web to share.
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With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov
