dovecot - Jun 2020 - Login auth strip domain from username

Hi, 

I have just discovered that the IMAP account setup wizard in outlook
2019 assumes that the email address for a user is the same as their
username, and there is no easy way to separately enter different user.
(It can be done via hidden dialog boxes, command line switches and
registry hacking, but it is far from easy [1]) 

Like many small setups, the dovecot accounts on my mail server map
directly to unix accounts on the machine, and the IMAP password for each
account is the same as the unix login password. 

I have now got outlook sorted and talking to my IMAP server, but seeing
as this issue will almost certainly arise again, with out
over-simplified MUA software, is there a setting in dovecot that if it
is given an email address as a login username it strips off the domain
part, and tests the user part against the password supplied? 

If you know how to do that for postfix for sending email, then even
better! 

[1]
https://superuser.com/questions/1391960/how-to-enter-username-of-imap-account-in-outlook-2016

-- 
David Pottage
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20200613/8a6a000c/attachment.html>

On 2020-06-13 21:58, David Pottage wrote:
> If you know how to do that for postfix for sending email, then even
> better!
https://doc.dovecot.org/settings/core/#auth-default-realm

have you make this ?

more help show doveconf -n
maybe as well postconf -nf

* David Pottage:
> is there a setting in dovecot that if it is given an email address as
> a login username it strips off the domain part [...]
You're probably looking for the 'username_format' configuration
parameter.
> If you know how to do that for postfix for sending email, then even
> better!
Assuming you need to configure more than a single MUA, you might find
https://gitlab.com/automx/automx2 useful.

-Ralph

Kind of off topic, but go to control panel, mail, accounts and the old familiar
version of setting up mail accounts in outlook will be there

Regards,
 
Stephen Hanselman
Datagate Systems, LLC
3107 North Deer Run Road #24
Carson City, Nevada, 89701
(775) 882-5117 office
(775) 720-6020 mobile
s.hanselman at datagatesystems.com
www.datagatesystems.com
a Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business
DISCLAIMER:
This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for use by the addressee(s)
named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or proprietary information.
If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or
copying of this e-mail and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have
received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me and permanently
delete the original and all copies and printouts of this e-mail and any
attachments.

Sent from my iPad
> On Jun 13, 2020, at 12:59, David Pottage <david at
electric-spoon.com> wrote:
> 
> ?
> Hi,
> 
> I have just discovered that the IMAP account setup wizard in outlook 2019
assumes that the email address for a user is the same as their username, and
there is no easy way to separately enter different user. (It can be done via
hidden dialog boxes, command line switches and registry hacking, but it is far
from easy [1])
> 
> Like many small setups, the dovecot accounts on my mail server map directly
to unix accounts on the machine, and the IMAP password for each account is the
same as the unix login password.
> 
> I have now got outlook sorted and talking to my IMAP server, but seeing as
this issue will almost certainly arise again, with out over-simplified MUA
software, is there a setting in dovecot that if it is given an email address as
a login username it strips off the domain part, and tests the user part against
the password supplied?
> 
> If you know how to do that for postfix for sending email, then even better!
> 
> [1]
https://superuser.com/questions/1391960/how-to-enter-username-of-imap-account-in-outlook-2016
> 
> -- 
> David Pottage
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20200613/2396044a/attachment-0001.html>