On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Wilson, Dave wrote:
Does UW support IMAP domains? Can I group users within domains?
What do you mean by "IMAP domains"? There is no such thing in the IMAP specification (I should know; I wrote it).
If, by domains, you refer to a feature of some servers to log in with a user name with an "@" in the name, this is a private feature of those servers. It is NOT a standard facility in IMAP.
IMAP has an authentication identity and an authorization identity. Those strings can contain any non-null 7-bit character, although generally this is restricted to the printable ASCII characters (0x40 - 0x7e). There is a movement afoot to expand this to any Unicode character.
UW imapd maps the IMAP authorization identity to a UNIX user name. The authentication identity is similarly mapped, and it must be the same as the authorization identity or be a user name that is in the "mailadm" group. The password associated with the authentication identity is used to validate login; and upon validation the session is setuid'd to the authorization identity. The UNIX permissions session is used for subsequent access control.
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