Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 11.7.2007, at 0.07, Don Russell wrote:
I have written a script that connects (localhost) to the dovecot/imap
server and performs various maintenance on my mail, by folder.....
deleting old stuff, keeping the n most recent, that sort of crap, er
good stuff. :-)
My script is written in php (I use the various imap_* functions), and
it connects to the imap server running on the same machine... is
there a way to connect to the server without having to specify my
user name and password?
I was thinking there may be some form of "implied" logon if a request
from user "don" requests to log on to user "don", then there's no
need for a password check, when the connection is via localhost.
How about using master users?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers
The master user password can be empty of course also.. You can limit
the allowed IPs with
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/AllowNets
Thank you. I think this will work well for me.
