Login with an alias ID

[Dan White]

On 02/28/13 11:33 +0530, Ram wrote:
>Does cyrus implement login with an alias id
>If the mailbox of a user is created with a long email id , it may be
>helpful to allow login with a short "nickname"
>
>So the user has a choice of logging in with either his full email-id or
>nickname to the same mailbox

You can implement this using a sasl canonicalization plugin. Sasl version
2.1.25 (and greater) supports canonicalization with the ldapdb shared
library.  There is a patch in bugzilla to implement support in the sql
shared library.

See: http://www.cyrussasl.org/docs/cyrus-sasl/2.1.25/options.php (search
for 'canon').

The best source of documentation is the cyrus-sasl mailing list archives.

-- 
Dan White