dovecot - May 2012 - smtp -auth with using clear text password

Hi

I am setting up a mailserver .. where clients need to authenticate to the
mail server . The mta i am using is postfix . It is possible to use a file
like this :

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cat /etc/postfix/dovecote_passwd
agnello:123456

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where user is agnello and password is 123456

If you can please send me some reference links

thanks a ton



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Regards
Agnello D'souza

On 04.05.2012 15:48, wrote Agnello George:
> Hi
>
> I am setting up a mailserver .. where clients need to authenticate to the
> mail server . The mta i am using is postfix . It is possible to use a file
> like this :
>
> ----------------------------------
> cat /etc/postfix/dovecote_passwd
> agnello:123456
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> where user is agnello and password is 123456
>
> If you can please send me some reference links
>
> thanks a ton
>
PasswdFile seems what you want:
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile