[Dovecot] Using saslauthd with dovecot

Marcus Rueckert rueckert at informatik.uni-rostock.de
Sat Oct 21 15:18:35 UTC 2006


On 2006-10-21 07:53:05 -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.1 STABLE
> Postfix-2.4-20061006
> Dovecot-1.0.rc7
> 
> I am using 'saslauthd -a sasldb -c' for authentication with Postfix.
> Since Dovecot and Postfix are using the same users and passwords, I was
> wondering if it would be possible to use this mechanism with Dovecot
> also.

even better. you can tell postfix to authenticate against dovecot.
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_dovecot

    darix

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