Words by Jonathan Knight [Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:21:44PM +0000]: > > Hi folks, > > We're looking to integrate our telephone system with our email system. The > telephone system will use IMAP4 to store WAV files in a users mailbox and > then retrieve them for playing if necessary. This is usually called > "unified messaging". > > The manufacturers are claiming full integration with Microsoft Exchange and > Lotus Notes using IMAP4 and a single username and password to access all the > users mailboxes. I can see that Dovecot has a master user feature that > looks like it will do the job. >
Yes. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers > Has anyone had any experience of using dovecot as a unified message server You mean as part of a unified messaging solution? Yes, by using the master user feature and vfile global ACLs (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL) to further control which folders the unified messaging user will be able to write to. > for a telephone system and has anyone any experience of configuring dovecot > so that an MS exchange IMAP4 client using a master user can use dovecot > without changing the client? > Sorry, couldn't grok this last past. Isn't MS exchange IMAP4 IMAP? And why would you want to allow the client to login with a master user? Anyway, you can put "loginuser*masteruser" and "masterpassword" on the username and password boxes on the client as explained by the documentation. -- Jose Celestino ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.msversus.org/ ; http://techp.org/petition/show/1 http://www.vinc17.org/noswpat.en.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- "If you would have your slaves remain docile, teach them hymns." -- Ed Weathers ("The Empty Box")