Cyrus + SASL + PAM + LDAP

[Igor Brezac]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Imre Veres wrote:

>> 1. I CAN authenticate perfectly with an LDAP user or sasldb user
>> through imap :-):
>> 2. I cannot authenticate with cyradm and LMTP:
>
> I'm sorry for my previous mail, I should have known that better: I
> created two technical users in the LDAP, one for cyradm and another
> for lmtp traffic and both of them work perfectly.
>
> One more little question if I'm not too audacious. It's surely an
> imapd question but you may know the answer.
>
> I've read that cyrus imapd wants fully qualified username through
> lmtp. Does it mean I should create mailboxes with full email addresses
> or with localparts or does this mailbox name can differ from email
> address? The last one were the best for me, because my LDAP user's uid
> is differ from email address; and I would use a tool that creating
> cyrus mailboxes automagically, but in the "user.$uid" form. For
> example:
>
> my mail address: imre.veres at company.hu
> my uid: six
> mailbox name: user.six
> postfix take "imre.veres at company.hu" into lmtp as RCPT To.
> How can I connect these "user.six" and "imre.veres at company.hu" into each 
> other?

postfix will need to do the translation (RCPT TO will need to be
six at company.hu).

-- 
Igor