Re: Pop-before-SMTP with Dovecot ?

Thanks much for your reply.  I'm going to work on setting up a new  
system with SMTP auth, rather than try to upgrade the our live server.  
   Hopefully the few that were depending on it can get by that long.   
Thanks again,
Joe



Quoting Matt Brookings <[email protected]>:

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> On 09/03/2010 03:32 PM, Joe @ 3ZZZ wrote:
>> I don't see any errors, but the relay table never gets updated despite
>> successful pop logins.  Am I missing something?  Could it be because I
>> first configured Dovecot incorrectly (without the CFLAGS=") and if so
>> what do I remove or change to allow it to work after recompile?
>
> Dovecot caches information and does not reference vpopmail continually
> for authentication.  It also does not support vpopmail's roaming users
> feature explicitly, and so roaming users cannot work.
>
> Switch to SMTP authentication.  Roaming users is *bad* and should only
> be used by legacy systems.  If you need some pointers on switching a
> large user base to SMTP authentication, let me know.
> - --
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