dovecot - Jan 2006 - Password changing?

Hey all, new user to the dovecot mailing list but I promise, this is a 
neat question.

Is it possible to request users change their email password through 
their email client?

I'm currently authenticating email logins to my dovecot server through 
SSL, with each users password checked against their /etc/passwd 
password.  So far, thunderbird will ask for the users new password 
(forced change at first logon,) but it fails to change the users 
password through the encrypted email connection.  Any assistance would 
be gladly appreciated.  Getting past this hurdle means i can eliminate 
one more bill gates server/money hole with a power button.


P.S. If anyone isnt using this "feature" to get users to set their
email
password, how might i ask are you getting users to change their email 
password to dovecot?


--John

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 21:58 -0500, john wrote:
> Is it possible to request users change their email password through 
> their email client?
No. IMAP and POP3 protocols don't support it. You'll have to do it some
other way, eg. a web page. One possibility would be to send an email
about it with a link where the password can be changed. But you'll still
have to allow users to log in and read their mails normally..

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