Conversion/Migration

Igor Brezac igor at ipass.net
Fri Jan 31 14:15:05 EST 2003


On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, John A. Tamplin wrote:

> Rob Siemborski wrote:
>
> >This really shouldn't be necessary.  admins can authorize as any user
> >(e.g. login as user cyrus with the password for them, but get rights as
> >rjs3).  Most SASL mechanisms allow this, though the regular imap LOGIN
> >command does not.
> >
> >
> As far as I know, UW imap-utils mbxcvt can only do login (with or
> without TLS, so perhaps you could do client certificates and external
> authentication to get around it).  For my purposes, it was easier just
> to hack saslauthd temporarily.
>

UW imap-utils will do plain, cram-md5, login and gss.  Actually, all the
utils are now combined into one utility (mailutil).  I modified mailutil
to do proxy login (as described by Rob above) so that I can run
conversion/migration while the new server is accepting new mail.

-- 
Igor





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