imap and ldap

[Laurent Larquère]

Hi
you must have a "ldap capable" saslauthd

# saslauthd -v
saslauthd 2.1.17
authentication mechanisms: getpwent pam rimap shadow ldap

to obtain this, you have to configure  --with-ldap


Geert Reijnders wrote:

>Hi all
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>Again I have a question. I want to setup a mail-server and the users must be retrieved from the ldap-server. I have heard from several people and read in several guides that it is possible with saslauthd -a ldap and put the following option in the imapd.conf:
>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
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>But of course when I try to do that I get error messages. The first one is when I execute the command saslauthd -a ldap:
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>saslauthd[285] :set_auth_mech   : unknown authentication mechanism: ldap
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>the solution is not by using pam because that is not an option in saslauthd.
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>The second one is when I try to open a mailbox in outlook express. Then I get the messages that on line .... (the line where sasl_pwcheck_method is located) that the command is unknown.
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>What am I missing or doing wrong? I hope anyone could help me.
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>Thanks in advance
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>Geert Reijnders
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