On Sun, 16 May 2004, John Peacock wrote: > Since SMTP AUTH is an extension to the SMTP protocol itself, and qpsmtpd > specifically claims to implement only the SMTP protocol, it makes more sense (to > me anyways) to add a Qpsmtpd::Auth library module, instead of as a plugin. From > my standpoint, that will be much easier to deal with, since I will want to have > the authentication go against my vpopmail database instead of some textfile on > the disk.
I presume it's not going to be too awkward to change the authentication method when you've finished? We use LDAP for authenication here as do more and more sites. > What I propose doing is taking what Ask Bj�rn Hansen and Guillaume Filion have > provided and turn it into an OO library. Then I will subclass that with a > custom module which will use my chosen backend to authenticate against. Ok. You seem to be planning a choice of authentication backend? I understand that I'll probably have to submit the LDAP backend. > Wish me luck! Good luck. Cheers. -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Information Services Division, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 4837 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key
