Re: saslauthd can't forward POP authentication?

[Wakabayashi Hirotaka]

Hi, folks,

  At Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:38:04 +0900,
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Wakabayashi Hirotaka ) wrote:

> i configured my cyrus-imapd to forward IMAP authentication to the
> remote IMAP server by using saslauthd, but is there any way to forward
> POP authentication to the remote POP server ?

I want to place my IMAP box on the Internet but I dislike to
put the user password file on the same host. I want to keep it
in the private segment for security reason. 

So, i use the saslauthd to forward authentication to the server in the
private segment.

     +---imap.hogehoge.com-----+
     | cyrus-imapd + saslauthd |
     +-------------|-----------+   Internet Segment
                 +-+-+
-----------------| R |----------------------------
                 +-+-+
                   | 
     +-------------+-----------+   Private Segment
     |     /etc/sasldb         |
     +---auth.hogehoge.com-----+

I start up the saslauthd daemon in imap.hogehoge.com as follows.

# saslauthd -r H auth.hogehoge.com -a rimap

of cource, cyrus-imapd servers are also working on the 
auth.hogehoge.com in order to authenticate users.

but, the option "-a rimap" only forward IMAP authentication. I would
like the saslauthd to forward POP authentication too.

Is there any plan to make saslauthd to provide POP authentication
service? If not, i do it.

Thanks,
Hirotaka

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]  ( Wakabayashi Hirotaka )