On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 01:05 +0100, Stephen Feyrer wrote: > > Right. A password is always required, but you can set Dovecot to accept > > any password. Set the password field empty in the passwd file and add > > nopassword extra field. http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile > > > > > > I have to admit I've seen that. I want to turn off password prompt > entirely, in effect external authentication. > > Is it a bad idea to remove the password prompt if any password will be > accepted?
There is an EXTERNAL SASL authentication mechanism, which I guess Dovecot could pretty easily support. But I'm not aware of any clients that support it even if I did bother to implement it.
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