<div dir="ltr">Ah... yes...<br>I changed the /etc/aliases file to redirect to the boxes I wanted, added a new router to the exim confiugration to accept local mail for those addresses and created mailboxes in cyrus for those users (and still reject mail for unknown users).<br>
<br>Sometimes the solution is just too obvious.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/25 Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlar310@gmail.com">jlar310@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Björn Keil <<a href="mailto:schattenkeil@googlemail.com">schattenkeil@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I am pretty new to Cyrus and got some problems with it.<br>
> I am trying to set up a Cyrus IMAP Server on a Debian Linux (Etch) System.<br>
> The system is running an Exim 4 Mailserver.<br>
><br>
> The problem is that I need the usernames that the users give when they log<br>
> in to be different from the names of their mailboxes. For example if the<br>
> user "bjoern" logs in, his INBOX shall be user.keil.<br>
><br>
> The only thing that I found that may help in that direction was an article<br>
> in the SASL documentation about the difference between authorization ID and<br>
> authentication ID. However, I didn't find anything in the IMAP server<br>
> documentation how to use that differentiation - and so - by default - it<br>
> seems to be the same.<br>
><br>
> As authentication mechanism I use the sasldb auxprop plugin, with a database<br>
> under /etc/sasldb, as it was preinstalled and seemed to be the simplest and<br>
> best way for the scale I intend (an IMAP server for 10 users or so).<br>
<br>
</div>Even if you could do that, what is the justification? I think it would<br>
lead to great confusion for admins. Isn't this something that would be<br>
better handled at the MTA level with aliases?<br>
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