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Paranoid Penguin - Secure Mail with LDAP and IMAP, Part II

Issue 117

From Issue #117
January 2004

Jan 01, 2004  By Mick Bauer
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An IMAP mail server with an LDAP directory makes things simple, secure and easy for the user. Now Mick explains the tricky parts to make you the company e-mail guru.
Conclusion

This is not all you need to know in order to be a Cyrus IMAP administrator, but hopefully it's enough to get started in building an LDAP-enabled Cyrus IMAP server. With the topics we've covered or touched on in these two articles, you now can go on to advanced topics, including how to let users change their LDAP passwords; how to let users use the LDAP server as an address book; how to set up shared IMAP folders securely; and how to set up a secure Web mail interface, such as SquirrelMail for Cyrus IMAP.

Resources

Cyrus IMAP Home Page (source, documentation and so on): asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd.

Mullet, Dianna, and Kevin Mullet. Managing IMAP. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly & Associates, 2000.

“Secure Mail with LDAP and IMAP, Part I”: /article/6998

Mick Bauer, CISSP, is Linux Journal's security editor and an IS security consultant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He's the author of Building Secure Servers With Linux (O'Reilly & Associates, 2002).

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