Allow any passwords from one host

[Rudy Gevaert]

Ramprasad wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am trying to design a custom mail archiving system for a cyrus
> mailbox. 
> My scripts will login to the cyrus mailbox and depending on rulesets
> fetch the mails and store them to particular directories on a different
> server
> 
> 
> Now Is it possible to configure cyrus to allow any password  from a
> trusted host. (Security is not an issue at all because imap is not open
> from most ips except from webmail and archive server that too in a
> trusted network)


cyrus supports admin users.  You can login as the cyrus user and 
authenticate as a normal user.

imapsync supports this.  Note that you will have to use an 
authentication mechanisiam that supports this.  E.g. PLAIN.

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