[imp] Authentification via MySQL in IMP

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Kilian Schmuck <kilian at politikag.de>:

> I have the folowing problem:
>
> I know, that it is possible, to let authentificate IMP users for the horde
> framework. On my webserver pop3-accounts have usernames like 426946 or
> 926853. But this user-names are for mail-adresses like
> otto at politikag.de or heinz at politikag.de. So it's another
> username than the username in the mail-adress. So I have to enter for
> example 426946 as username when I want to authentify via imap/pop3. But
> the users don't want to enter a number as user. They want to enter their
> name like "otto" or "heinz". That's possible, when I let authetify horde
> via MySQL. But, then I have to enter the user datas every time, ehen I
> want to start IMP in the horde framework. And so I have to enter the
> usernumber 426946 nevertheless. So it's senseless!
> I thought, it would be possible, to add the pop3-user-datas, to each user
> in the mysql-table. But I don't know how to tell this IMP.
> Can anybody help me or can anybody tell me how to solve this problem? I
> would be very happy.

You can use IMP's vinfo hook to request the user id matching the entered
user name from the db backend.

Jan.

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