*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Henning,
Thanks for your response. Yes, I'm planning on using javamail 1.3. It's a pretty good package. I was afraid that you'd say that it'll be rough to use IMAP authentication solely. Thanks for your advice regarding IMAP service. I'll check it out. Regards, Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: hometree.jakarta.turbine.users To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 6:59 AM Subject: Re: Custom Authentication off of IMAP/Mail > *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* > "Philip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > I did a similar thing (say, do you btw need an imap users management > tool? ;-) ) by using Cyrus Imapd with SASL2 and LDAP backend for users > authentication; LDAP driven by an SQL backend itself and ran Turbine > on the same SQL tables as the LDAP server. > > Today, I'd probably recommend using the LDAP Security Service and > LDAP+SASL2 for your IMAP server. > > If you really want to run Security on the same passwords as your imap > server, you need some way to access the IMAP server user database. If > you have only IMAP access, you might want to try to use the javax.mail > package which provides some "logging into imap" functionality and then > use its return codes to build a custom security service. This doesn't > sound too easy, though and you would have trouble getting the groups, > roles and permissions there. > > Regards > Henning > > -- > Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ > > Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services > freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire > > --- Quote of the week: "It is pointless to tell people anything when > you know that they won't process the message." --- Jonathan Revusky > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
