offering limited pop access

[Ian Eiloart]

--On 29 October 2008 16:21:34 +0100 Christiaan den Besten 
<chris at prolocation.net> wrote:

> Hi !
>
> Can't you handle this in de search filter in perdition ? ... so run
> perdition for pop with a different configuration file then for imap. And
> add some specific field to ldap to search on for pop3 access ....


I can, but I'm switching to Cyrus IMAP proxy (to enable sharing of 
mailboxes across backends), and would like to abandon perdition if 
possible. I don't want to maintain a whole set of software just to support 
one user.

> bye,
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Eiloart" <iane at sussex.ac.uk>
> To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:36 PM
> Subject: offering limited pop access
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I offer an IMAP service to 12000 users, but we don't offer POP3.
>>
>> However, we have a blind person who has a braille computer, with POP3
>> client, but no IMAP client.
>>
>> I've configured a perdition proxy which can give him POP, but not IMAP
>> access. However, we're moving toward using Cyrus proxyd front end, with
>> LDAP authentication (through SASL).
>>
>> Is there a way I can configure my murder cluster to perform a different
>> IMAP lookup for POP3 authentication, compared to IMAP authentication. Or,
>> is there some other way that I can restrict POP3 access to certain users?
>>
>> I've got configuration files at
>> /local/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22/lib/sasl2/imap.conf
>> which just says:
>>    pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>    mech_list: plain
>> I presume I need a pop.conf file that's similar, but can't find any
>> documentation.
>>
>> and
>> /local/cyrus-sasl-2.1.22/etc/saslauthd.conf
>> which specifies how to access the LDAP servers.
>>
>> I want everything the same, but with a different value for ldap_filter.
>> Can
>> I just override this in pop3.conf? Or do I set sasl_ldap_filter my cyrus
>> configuration, instead?
>>
>> --
>> Ian Eiloart
>> IT Services, University of Sussex
>> x3148
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>



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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
x3148