Re: Fwd: VPOPMAIL & DOVECOT & SMTP-AUTH

Davis Sylvester <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.vpopmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Matt what smtp-patch do u suggest!  Can u point me to a current howto?

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Matt Brookings <[email protected]> wrote:

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>On 09/10/2010 12:45 PM, Davis Sylvester wrote:
>> 
>> I am using Qmail and Dovecot for IMAP.  Prior to installing Dovecot we
>> only offered POP3 and SMTP services.
>> The issue I have run into is that after I installed Dovecot, IMAP runs
>> fine, but when my users go to send email they can't.
>
>This was just discussed on the list yesterday.  Dovecot caches user
>information in memory and does not support roaming users.  You will
>need to switch to SMTP authentication.
>
>POP-before-SMTP is *bad*.
>
>> Is there a simple resolution to resolve this issue?  I have looked at
>> SMTP-AUTH but not sure it will work with vpopmail.
>
>It works.  Just be sure that you have clear passwords enabled in
>vpopmail if you want to support CRAM-MD5 authentication.
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