Topic: Mail authentication using IMAP

[luca.sartori]

Is there any way to use the full mail address to authenticate using IMAP to the sme server?
e.g. Instead of using "user" to access the user@smedomain.it mailbox I want to use "user@smedomain.it" to authenticate

Thank you

[Stefano]

Hi Luca and welcome here..

no, unfortunately no, there's no option to do so..

BTW, please explain us your issue with standard auth based on username..
finally.. if you prefer italian, come to italian language forum too..

ciao

[luca.sartori]

Thank you for your response.
I have a third part mail client that refuse to do imap authentication without using a mail address as username.

[Stefano]

could you share the name of such an application?

[luca.sartori]

Sure! It's an application from Qnap. They use QmailAgent to sync a mailbox to their NAS.
I wanted to use it to keep a copy of my mail on a NAS.

I'll try to ask also on Qnap Forum.
Anyway, thanks again for your time and your responses.

[Stefano]

you're welcome...

since it's not the first time that someone ask for such a feature, I'll dig into a bit and will report here (and in Bugzilla too)

[Stefano]

Hi Luca

finally I found howto authenticate users on imap using full email address, but unfortunately it works only on SME9 and works only using real users, not alias..

that said, this is another reason to start scheduling the upgrade to 9.X

[brianr]

Hi Luca

finally I found howto authenticate users on imap using full email address, but unfortunately it works only on SME9 and works only using real users, not alias..

that said, this is another reason to start scheduling the upgrade to 9.X

Are you going to give us the details Stefano?

[Stefano]

Sure, my bad
https://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9865