Mailbox name diferent than login name in IMAP/POP, possible?

[Rudy Gevaert]

Igor Brezac wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Pedro Algarvio wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to login like username at domain.tld and get the mailbox 
>> for that user to be for example username_domain.tld?
>>
>> I'm using ldap as the saslauthd backend, so would it be possible to 
>> translate username at reaml to username_realm, that way users could login 
>> with their normal email address to services like pop/imap.
>>
>> I know authentication is possible, that's plain ldap, but the mailbox 
>> "translation" is my doubt.
>>
>> P.S.: I'd like to get this without using cyrus virtdomains setting, or 
>> at least leaving it to off.
> 
> You will need to write/hack code for this to work.  You have several 
> options: write a custom authorization module (it can be ldap driven) or 
> hack an existing authorization module, hack ptloader/ldap code or write 
> your own ptloader plugin, or write a custom canon sasl plugin.

You could put an imap/pop3 proxy before it.  e.g perdition.

Rudy