[Dovecot] Re: IMAP login name conversion

[Michael Surette]

Zoong Pham wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Timo Sirainen [mailto:tss at iki.fi]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 9:39 PM
>> To: Zoong Pham
>> Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] IMAP login name conversion
>>
>> What passdb and userdb do you use? Unless you're authenticating from 
>> SQL you probably have to modify the source.
> 
> Let me explain:
> My server runs OpenBSD-3.5 and Sendmail. We host few virtual domains.
> Local accounts have login names in this format: login-domain_abc_xyz
> For example: joedirt-joedomain_com_au, info-adomain_com,
> info-otherdomain_com
> 
> That way login accounts are unique across all the virtual domains.
> 
> I use the OpenBSD pre-compiled dovecot-0.99.10p2.
> It is set to use "auth_passdb = passwd" and "auth_userdb = passwd"
> 
> I can use mutt to access my mailbox via IMAPS with login name format
> joedirt-joedomain_com_au.
> 
> Other users use different MUA like Outlook and prefer to login with
> their email addresses (joedirt at joedomain.com.au, info at adomain.com, 
> info at otherdomain.com)
> 
> We use squirrelmail for webmail. I modified squirrelmail to
> automatically
> convert login name from format of joedirt at joedomain.com.au to 
> joedirt-joedomain_com_au.
> So if users use squirrelmail, they can just login with their email
> addresses.
> 
> My question is how to achieve the same thing with other MUAs like
> Outlook?
> Do I have to modify dovecot source?
> Can I use LDAP or SQL instead?
> Note that we are using Sendmail and prefer it than othe MTA.
> 
> I have looked at the Wiki, specially the "DovecotOpenLdap" but am still
> confused.
> 
> Thanks
> Zoong
> 
> 
> 


I fail to see your problem.

Outlook and other MUA's login to pop and imap servers with the settings 
that you put in.  Yes, it's easier for the user if you say just put your 
email address in that box, but you can just as easily tell them to put
joedirt-joedomain_com_au as joedirt at joedomain.com.au and then it will 
work.  Remember, this setting is just the login to the server, the email 
address that the world sees is a different setting.  This is a setting 
that only has to be setup once, so it shouldn't be a big deal unless you 
have a **lot** of users that you have to explain this to.

Unless I've totally missed something, of course.

Mike