[Dovecot] Can Auth dict proxy protocol be used to validate a password?

I'm interested in using authentication via a UNIX socket as documented at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/Dict. (We are currently using a checkpassword script to enable us to authenticate against a django app that stores passwords in pbkdf2 format, but I'm concerned about scalability as w

[Dovecot] Dovecot/Django authentication

We've got an application in django that has passwords stored in both sha1 and pbkdf2_sha256 form. We need dovecot to be able to authenticate against the django database (we can't modify django to store passwords in dovecot's form, I'm afraid). Has anyone done a dovecot authentication plugin to

Re: [Dovecot] Architecture for large Dovecot cluster

Hi Stan- >> >> (Stan gives a great run-down on the economics of using a NetApp or >> even homegrown NFS filer versus using an object storage backend.) > > Tom I'm sorry I wasted your time with my initial response. > No, you absolutely didn't waste my time, and it was certainly of great advant