[ale] Recommendations for mail server w/ LDAP?

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

Look for pam tools to make dovecot authenticate against ldap. Set dovecot
to use system auth and then nsswitch to use ldap.
On Dec 1, 2012 6:42 PM, "mike at trausch.us" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> It'd appear that the Dovecot people are wholly uninterested in
> supporting their software.
>
> Here's the situation:  I have an LDAP server (which, incidentally, works
> just fine; ldapsearch will return results 100% of the time in less than
> 0.20 seconds).  I want to migrate the mail system to use it and the
> Kerberos system deployed alongside it.  Dovecot, well, refuses to talk
> to it with the same parameters given to ldapsearch.
>
> Any recommendations for an IMAP server that:
>
>  (a) doesn't require the use of Maildir or mbox (user mailboxes on
>      this system average about 20 GB and several hundred thousand
>      messages may be stored in a single IMAP folder)?
>  (b) works with LDAP?
>  (c) is well-supported by its upstream?
>
>         --- Mike
>
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