dovecot - Sep 2009 - Unusual IMAP config.

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Hi all,

perhaps a silly question, perhaps an unusual one, I don't know.
I'm trying to suss out how to set up Dovecot in such a way as to have
two separate IMAP services running on the same system.

To explain. We have an "internally-facing" IMAP and an
"externally-facing" one. It's policy that anyone connecting to
IMAP from
outside uses a stronger authentication method than the default internal one.

The current system uses the standard imap/imaps ports for internal auth,
but a different port-pair for external access.

(actually it's a bit more complex than that, but that's all I really
need to go into for this exercise!)

So, for example, I'd like to kick off a test rig that uses IMAP on port
143 using a standard password (file or NIS) auth and to set up another
on port, say 144 using PAM.

Can this be done within one single dovecot.conf, or should I be running
two separate daemons?

Thanks,
SAW
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Steven-Ashley Woltering, MBCS, Systems Analyst,
ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading, RG2 9AX, UK
Tel.: +44 1189 499473 (internal x2473)
Email: Steven.Woltering at ecmwf.int
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:52 PM, S. A. Woltering
<Ashley.Woltering at ecmwf.int>wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> perhaps a silly question, perhaps an unusual one, I don't know.
> I'm trying to suss out how to set up Dovecot in such a way as to have
> two separate IMAP services running on the same system.
>
> To explain. We have an "internally-facing" IMAP and an
> "externally-facing" one. It's policy that anyone connecting
to IMAP from
> outside uses a stronger authentication method than the default internal
> one.
>
> The current system uses the standard imap/imaps ports for internal auth,
> but a different port-pair for external access.
>
> (actually it's a bit more complex than that, but that's all I
really
> need to go into for this exercise!)
>
> So, for example, I'd like to kick off a test rig that uses IMAP on port
> 143 using a standard password (file or NIS) auth and to set up another
> on port, say 144 using PAM.
>
> Can this be done within one single dovecot.conf, or should I be running
> two separate daemons?
>
> Thanks,

Two daemons with separate config files that ensure there are no conflicts in
pid, base_dir, ports and login_dir. Me thinks.

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