Hi Björn! You will need to look for a canon_user plugin. That's the *only* solution possible. Regards, Torsten -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:03:12 +0200 > Von: "Björn Keil" <schattenkeil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > An: info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: Different mailbox and login names > Hello, > > I am pretty new to Cyrus and got some problems with it. > I am trying to set up a Cyrus IMAP Server on a Debian Linux (Etch) System. > The system is running an Exim 4 Mailserver. > > The problem is that I need the usernames that the users give when they log > in to be different from the names of their mailboxes. For example if the > user "bjoern" logs in, his INBOX shall be user.keil. > > The only thing that I found that may help in that direction was an article > in the SASL documentation about the difference between authorization ID > and > authentication ID. However, I didn't find anything in the IMAP server > documentation how to use that differentiation - and so - by default - it > seems to be the same. > > As authentication mechanism I use the sasldb auxprop plugin, with a > database > under /etc/sasldb, as it was preinstalled and seemed to be the simplest > and > best way for the scale I intend (an IMAP server for 10 users or so). > > bjoern@kant:~$ sudo aptitude show libsasl2 | grep Version > Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-8 > > bjoern@kant:/etc$ sudo aptitude show cyrus-imapd-2.2 | grep Version > Version: 2.2.13-10 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
