[Dovecot] [exim] request to have dovecot authenticator driver 'officially' included/supported

[Philip Hazel]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, OpenMacNews wrote:

>	http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch36.html
> 
> a cyrus_sasl authenticator driveer is 'included' in exim core.
> 
> given that Dovecot has become a very attractive alternative for an
> increasing number of folks, and there's a patch against exim 4.43 here:
> 
>	http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingDovecot
> 
> that allows use of Dovecot's native sasl implementation as an
> authenticator, and that is _seems_ to apply against 4.63 ok, might it
> be possible to get this integrated into exim core, and have it become
> 'official'?

I have integrated this patch (it needed a little work - see ChangeLog).
I have done extremely preliminary testing against Dovecot 1.0_beta8 and
I think it is OK. The code will be in tonight's snapshot. If anybody who
is actually running Dovecot would like to do some more serious testing,
that would be good.

Philip

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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.