[Dovecot] Dovecot-auth stand alone

[Timo Sirainen]

On 18.10.2006, at 9.55, Jorgen Lundman wrote:

> Since you have to have a SASL implementation with Postfix, either  
> Cyrus or Dovecot, would it be feasable to have autoconf options to  
> build only those parts required?
>
> Currently I attempt to disable most things, except for LDAP which  
> we want to use:
>
> ./configure --with-ldap --without-pop3d --without-passwd --without- 
> passwd-file --without-shadow --without-pam --without-checkpassword  
> --without-bsdauth --without-vpopmail --without-ssl --without- 
> deliver --without-sql-drivers --with-storages=
>
> That still compiles, and installs, imap. No way to stop that.

Well, yea. It doesn't hurt that much though since you don't need to  
use them. :) I'll make dovecot-auth a completely separate package at  
some point also.

> However, master process "dovecot" does not want to start with  
> "protocols=" set to empty. This is somewhat understandable, but I  
> really do not want any listening ports, just the Unix auth socket  
> and dovecot-auth process. Bind localhost for now?

protocols = none works.

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