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From:
John Peacock
Date:
April 1, 2005 03:38
Subject:
Re: auth_vpopmail_sql
Message ID:
424D336C.4070306@rowman.com
Christopher Heschong wrote:
> Hi Jeff, I wrote a plugin that I posted to this list a while back that 
> will authenticate to the local IMAP server, so if you already have IMAP 
> or POP3 setup on your server with whatever backend authentication 
> mechanisms you might need (vpopmail, etc), you don't have to worry about 
> a second authentication method or different way of accessing them.  

The one caveat being that your implementation only supports cleartext methods 
like auth-plain (and auth-login if you added it).  Because you need the 
cleartext password to perform the backend authentication, there is no way to 
support auth-cram-md5.  That may be an acceptable limitation for some sites, but 
doesn't lend itself to a generalized solution.

John

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