On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Ian Eiloart <iane@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 use nginx to do that. nginx require a daemon using http protocol. You have to write your in your favorite scripting language (10 lines of python or perl code). This daemon can make the required check in my ldap database ! If you have only one user, just hard code his name in your script. > > 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 > ---- > 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 > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ---- 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
