cyrus-imap and full ldap support

[Patrice]

Thank you for your answer,

my sasl server is working , I can authenticate my users into ldap

but if I understand well, the mailboxes.db define user on the imap server.
but when I authenticate  through sasl , I do a connection to ldap , that 
is working :)

I must create a user into my mailboxes.db and after that , I must create 
the user into ldap? , isn't it ?


Christopher Baron wrote:

>
>
> Patrice wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to migrate to cyrus-imap.
>> actually , I have all my users in an ldap database
>
>
> As do I
>
>>
>> cyrus-imap uses mailboxes.db to store users
>>
>> if all my users are in ldap , I must use mailboxes.db ?
>
>
> mailboxes.db is a list of all the mailboxes on the server, as well as 
> some other things.  it is not just for authentication, it is also for 
> authorization.
>
>        
>
>>
>> and if true, I have to extract all my user id from ldap , to insert 
>> them into mailboxes.db ?
>>
> what you should do is check out the Cyrus SASL project (which is 
> necessary anyway) and, specifically, saslauthd.  You can use saslauthd 
> to authenticate imap/pop logins against an LDAP directory server.
>
> I have used the University of Athens's patch to cyrus to autocreate 
> mailboxes when a message is delivered, relying on the MTA (Postfix) to 
> verify the address is legitimate.
> I had a few problems with case, but after some interesting debugging 
> things I've managed to get a fairly decent system going.
>
> Check out http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/
>
> I also strongly suggest that you download both the Cyrus SASL and 
> Cyrus IMAP distributions and run throught he documentation with a fine 
> tooted comb.
>
> ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/
>
> There is also gobs of useful information at the Cyrus WIKI.  
> http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WebHome
>
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> Chris
>

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