[Dovecot] LDAP Bind

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 22 12:01:10 EEST 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 11:47, Hervé Commowick - NewSports wrote:
> >I've thought about adding checkpassword support for dovecot-auth
> >actually. For now you could support auth binds with PAM and pam-ldap
> >module.

BTW. 1.0-test21 has passdb checkpassword support. Still need userdb
though.

> >No, at least not yet. It's pretty nice format, but for being named
> >IMAPdir I think it should have been designed to be 100% IMAP-compatible.
> >
> >The problem is that with IMAPdir (and Maildir++) RENAME isn't atomic
> >when it has to rename subfolders. Also renaming INBOX can be problematic
> >to implement atomically (the INBOX must never be lost).
> >
> i don't understand as well, i'll try to find document about that.

It's not too bad, I just think the IMAPdir name is wrong in that case :)

> >Pretty much the only way to do this with UNIX would be to use real
> >directories to implement hierarchies rather than a special '.' separator
> >in file/directory name. I wonder why Andreas didn't do this.
> >  
> >
> IMAPdir use real directory to implement hierarchy, if i create a folder, 
> it is created in IMAPdir directory like that :
> IMAPdir
> \_INBOX
> \_TestFolder
> 
> so the IMAPdir use real directory and not special '.' separator...

But when you create a folder under TestFolder? That's created as
"TestFolder.SubFolder" in the root dir, not as "TestFolder/SubFolder".
At least that's how bincimap.org web page explains it.

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