Re: POP3/IMAP server using LDAP

[Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, R.I.Pienaar wrote:

	Cyrus.  Cyrus does POP and IMAP.  I'm still running an older
version than the current (I'm running 1.5.19).  I've patched it to do LDAP
for authentication, including looking up a user by uid, and optionally
applying additional filters for access control. 

	I've also patched it to be able to read gzipped messages, which
has been very helpful with big mails and small disks.  I usually get a
near 50% savings.

# I have done some simple patches to qpop to search for the user in the tree,
# and bind as that user, if it passes it does a maildrop.
# 
# so there dont hve to be entries in /etc/passwd for my pop server, i am also
# looking for a imap solution though.
# 
# On Thu Mar 02, 2000 at 03:38:23PM -0600, John Lederer wrote:
# > Basically what I am after is a central place to add, delete and modify
# > users.  We currently use LDAP for our phone lists, email addresses, web
# > authentiucation, calendar user info, mail aliases, mail groups, etc.  This
# > works well with Netscape's messaging server because the php3 scripts that we
# > use to add and modify users simply change their LDAP record and all the
# > servers get their info from LDAP.  One place for admin, everything is
# > handled.
# > 
# > Now I need to replace Netscape's message server, so I am looking for an
# > imap/pop3 server that can get its user info (authentication, aliases, group
# > memberships, etc.)out of LDAP.
# > 
# > John
# > 
# > Dustin Sallings wrote:
# > 
# > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, John Lederer wrote:
# > >
# > >         What types of settings are you looking to store?  Subscriptions?
# > >
# > > # I am looking for a pop3/IMAP server that stores the
# > > # user's mail settings in LDAP much as does Netscape's
# > > # Messenger Server (indeed, a drop in replacement for
# > > # Netscape woiuld be ideal).
# > > #
# > 
# 
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# 
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