Dovecot Active Directory Authentication

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Assumes working AD server

# cd /etc/dovecot
# cat >  dovecot-ldap.conf.ext << __EOF__
hosts = ad.domain.tld
ldap_version = 3
base = dc=domain,dc=tld
auth_bind_userdn = %u
auth_bind = yes
__EOF__

Change passdb; userdb untouched
# Authenticates by AD server
passdb {
  driver = ldap
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf.ext
}
# Retrieves user home directory, mail directory, uid, and gid 
userdb {
  driver = sql
  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
}

# systemctl restart dovecot

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