dovecot - Mar 2008 - Telephone systems and Dovecot

Hi folks,

We're looking to integrate our telephone system with our email system.  
The telephone system will use IMAP4 to store WAV files in a users 
mailbox and then retrieve them for playing if necessary.  This is 
usually called "unified messaging".

The manufacturers are claiming full integration with Microsoft Exchange 
and Lotus Notes using IMAP4 and a single username and password to access 
all the users mailboxes.  I can see that Dovecot has a master user 
feature that looks like it will do the job.

Has anyone had any experience of using dovecot as a unified message 
server for a telephone system and has anyone any experience of 
configuring dovecot so that an MS exchange IMAP4 client using a master 
user can use dovecot without changing the client?

Jon.

Words by Jonathan Knight [Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:21:44PM
+0000]:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> We're looking to integrate our telephone system with our email system. 
The
> telephone system will use IMAP4 to store WAV files in a users mailbox and 
> then retrieve them for playing if necessary.  This is usually called 
> "unified messaging".
>
> The manufacturers are claiming full integration with Microsoft Exchange and
> Lotus Notes using IMAP4 and a single username and password to access all
the
> users mailboxes.  I can see that Dovecot has a master user feature that 
> looks like it will do the job.
>
Yes. http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/MasterUsers
> Has anyone had any experience of using dovecot as a unified message server 
You mean as part of a unified messaging solution? Yes, by using the
master user feature and vfile global ACLs (http://wiki.dovecot.org/ACL)
to further control which folders the unified messaging user will be able
to write to.
> for a telephone system and has anyone any experience of configuring dovecot
> so that an MS exchange IMAP4 client using a master user can use dovecot 
> without changing the client?
>
Sorry, couldn't grok this last past. Isn't MS exchange IMAP4 IMAP? And
why
would you want to allow the client to login with a master user? Anyway,
you can put "loginuser*masteruser" and "masterpassword" on
the username
and password boxes on the client as explained by the documentation.

-- 
Jose Celestino
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