[Dovecot] How to use SASL2?

[Matthew Reimer]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 02:02, grpmind+dovecot at boromir.vpop.net wrote:
> 
>>How does one use SASL2 for authentication? I looked for docs but found
>>none.
> 
> There's some code for supporting Cyrus' SASL library, but it hasn't been
> tested for a while and I doubt that it works. I don't really have plans
> to make it work either.
> 
> Why do you want it anyway? Dovecot supports PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5 and
> ANONYMOUS SASL mechanisms internally. Most important missing one is
> Kerberos 5 I think.

I'm not really interested in using SASL for its own sake, but because it's a way to get dovecot to authenticate against my mysql users db. I might try to write a patch to implement mysql support for dovecot, hopefully good enough for you to commit.

Matt