From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 16:27:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFF2CF2B for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8638B12F for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3hzNrM4Q2Tz1Dt for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:27:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:27:47 -0400 From: Daniel Staal Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is pkg saying courier and postfix are incompatible? Message-ID: <5317747AE6C76A2CB9FD4061@[192.168.1.50]> In-Reply-To: References: <005201cfd2bd$d8ac34d0$8a049e70$@shaw.ca> <9745AE56F096E150A334CBD1@[192.168.1.50]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:27:55 -0000 --As of September 17, 2014 10:34:43 PM -0600, Dale Scott is alleged to have said: >> The Courier project though developed several other mail-handing programs >> - the most popular of which (and more common than the mail server >> itself) is the IMAP server, and associated authentication server. >> That's what you are trying to install, and it works just fine with >> Postfix - I was using it until very recently in that capacity. > > So courier-authlib-ldap is a full LDAP server? I'm already using > OpenLDAP, which I would prefer to leave it as-is. I thought > courier-authlib-ldap might be an interface from courier-authlib to a > 3rd-party LDAP server (i.e. OpenLDAP). No: it's the authentication agent/server for the Courier programs. It operates as a separate daemon and provides some service to check who can log in, etc. I don't think it does LDAP itself - just that it can communicate with an LDAP server. I believe the point was so that Courier (the mail server) and Courier-IMAP, etc. didn't have to separately implement LDAP/password/etc. for every possible user authentication method. >> (I switched to Dovecot, which a lot of people like. It seems to be >> more up-to-date, although I haven't seen the speed increases people >> claim.) > > Do you know if it's difficult to setup Dovecot to authenticate a webmail > username and password using /etc/master.passwd (like the Hong recipe with > courier-authlib), or authenticate using an OpenLDAP server? It wasn't hard to use password auth, and I assume they've got LDAP auth set up fairly easily as well. There are guides out there. Dovecot is slightly more straightforward to set up, since it wasn't designed as an add-on to something else. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------