Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2003 13:04 schrieb tallison@tacocat.net:
I've been using postfix on a Debian box for a few years. Easy enough to set up but not I'm looking at replacing that box with a SuSE 8.2 box.
I figure I can muddle my way through postfix configuration using YAST2 easy enough.
But the configuration of cyrus is a little daunting.
I have some basic questions and I'm not sure where to begin finding the answers.
is cyrus-sasld required for cyrus to function? (appears to be a definite Yes)
"cyrus-sasl" or "saslauthd" ? What is "cyrus-sasld"? You need cyrus-sasl to authenticate.
Authentication: I am attempting to configure my network with PAM_LDAP authentication. Attempting, in that I haven't gotten there yet. But I would also want to be able to create mail accounts for users who are not in my network or may be on a different domain name (two domains on one mail server). Can I do this using LDAP with TLS? (I really don't want plaintext passwords unless it's between my LAN and DMZ)
What's the DEFAULT authentication model for cyrus?
What is "model"? The default in Suse-8.2 is to use saslauthd via pam to authenticate. So you could easily configure pam_ldap. And about the cleartext-passwords. "saslauthd" is bound to sasl-auth-mechs like plain and login, which means that you have to send the cleartext-passords, but you could use tls-connections. This should already built in the Suse's Cyrus-IMAPd. -- Andreas