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Thanks, I've never heard about that project, imap was cyrus, courier or dovecot for me (I run the latter). The dovecot developers claimed in various mailing lis

Thanks, I've never heard about that project, imap was cyrus, courier or dovecot for me (I run the latter). The dovecot developers claimed in various mailing list threads, that a SQL based backend would not make sense, not even performance wise. Interesting to see a different approach. What irks me is the FAQ entry claiming "If you have trouble with user authentication, edit the pg_hba.conf to allow trust or md5"... I - don't think that this is a good idea?

feld 13y ago
I've never had to do that before. That would require a very poorly configured Postgres server.
- Arnt 13y ago
  Yes, it would require that. Such servers do exist, I'm sorry to say.
Arnt 13y ago
I wrote that sentence. Trust is not a good idea, in my opinion. But I know that some people disagree with me, and I have better things to do than discuss the issue with them. MD5 is fine, I think. If you allow randoms from the entire internet to connect, allowing MD5 won't hurt you much more. If you restrict connections to e.g. your own IP addresses using a packet filter or firewall, MD5 definitely will not hurt you.