[Dovecot] [patch] gssapi support

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 18:38 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>>I was mostly thinking about things which don't exist yet. Such as
>>there's already Postfix patch to authenticate from dovecot-auth, would
>>it make sense to add integrity proxy to it?
> 
> 
> Ah...maybe.  Postfix already has its own SASL implementation, so the
> Postfix patch could be extended to be able to receive an exported GSS
> context and do its own integrity/confidentiality protection in the smtpd
> process.  I guess it would be possible to have dovecot-auth do the
> integrity protection proxying itself in the same way imap-login does
> now, but given that Postfix has its own SASL it probably makes more
> sense to give control back to that.

I guess you are talking about the unofficial TLS patch to postfix. It 
uses CYRUS SASL unwanted by some, so (small and easier to proofread) 
alternatives would probably be appreciated.

  - Jonas