[HowTo] Replace courier with dovecot

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(10-03-2008 02:10 AM)aseques Wrote:  Hi, if the passwords are stored in a know encryption method (haven't look at it in deep yet), it wouldn't be faster to user dovecot directly to check the passwords?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but if every time a pop connection is established there has to be a perl script connecting to the database and retrieving the user info, doing it natively with dovecot + mysql would be less cost expensive I guess.
At the moment I don't have any production server using post-encription release so I haven't look at it yet.

What's your opinion?

Encryption used is blowfish cbc. Nor dovecot, nor mysql support this type of encryption. Also ispcp use by default courier, not dovecot. But since there are users that like this mail server I think is my duty to help them. We need an encryption method that is reversible because of sasl that need plain text passwords for postfix so md5/sha1/etc are not suitable.