[Dovecot] Postfix SASL AUTH from Dovecot

[Timo Sirainen]

On 1.6.2004, at 23:26, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> Just guessing from my armchair here, but I believe I heard Wietse (of
> postfix and tcp wrappers fame) wasn't willing to include SMTP AUTH
> patches into postfix, because SASL was too large and unaudited.

Similiar to my reasons for not using it.

> If you have something that allows authenticated SMTP for postfix via
> dovecot, and it's not a huge gob of unaudited code, you might be onto
> something really nice - particularly if the changes can be included in
> the postfix (or dovecot?) baseline so people don't have to patch, and
> repatch, and hope patching continues to work.

Someone already sent my original mail to Wietse. Reply was pretty much 
"I'll continue Postfix hacking in July". We'll see then :)

The Postfix part of the code would anyway be minimal. My current patch 
uses Dovecot's code for it but only because it was the fastest way to 
do it. It only needs to send and receive data via UNIX sockets, nothing 
special.
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