• Timo Sirainen (tss@iki.fi) wrote:

On 20.10.2004, at 20:34, Alan Schmitt wrote:

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• What authentification method would you recommend? OS X does not keep the users and passwords in /etc/passwd, so I'm using passwd-file method at the moment. I'm wondering how good a choice this is.

I think it does update /etc/passwd? At least my userid is there. You should be able to use PAM as passdb, and passwd as userdb.

Unfortunately it does not seem to update it. I see very few things in /etc/passwd.

In fact, the header from the file says:

top% cat /etc/passwd

User Database

Note that this file is consulted when the system is running in single-user

mode. At other times this information is handled by one or more of:

lookupd DirectoryServices

By default, lookupd gets information from NetInfo, so this file will

not be consulted unless you have changed lookupd's configuration.

This file is used while in single user mode.

To use this file for normal authentication, you may enable it with

/Applications/Utilities/Directory Access.

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however I could not find a imapd to call directly. Is this possible with dovecot?

/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap

Great, thanks a lot.

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• I see that the maiboxes created under the Maildir directory are of the form .INBOX and .Sent. Could it be possible (maybe using namespaces, I have not really understood how they work) to store them without the leading dot?

Not yet. It's the Maildir++ standard. I may implement something else some day.

OK, this is fine, thanks.

I have a question about procmail, but I'll ask it in another message.

Alan Schmitt

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