[Dovecot] Dovecot using authsasld

[Dag Wieers]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Anand Buddhdev wrote:

> Gerard Seibert writes:
> 
> > On Saturday 16 September 2006 13:46, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > 
> > > But I found a workaround, apparently authsasld is able to authenticate
> > > against dovecot IMAP using 'rimap' authentication mechanism. Sadly this
> > > means I have to enable PLAIN IMAP password authentication in dovecot.
> > 
> > Where did you find the documentation for 'rimap'? I might like to look into
> > it also.
> 
> man saslauthd
> 
> I've used this method in the past to get exim to use saslauthd to authenticate
> SMTP connections. I found it too messy for my taste. These days, I tend to
> keep user accounts (even if it is just 20) in mysql. That way, exim (or
> postfix), dovecot (or courier-imap), apache and pure-ftpd can all make use of
> the same user database, and I can easily move between postfix and exim, or
> courier-imap and dovecot, depending on my mood :)
> 
> Adding and removing users is made trivial by tools such as PhpMyAdmin.

I agree with you in general, but complexity can be looked at from 
different viewpoints. I did not want to introduce another dependency and 
the filesystem already was a dependency, mysql was not :)

But I agree that mysql (or another database, or ldap) in general offers 
much more flexibility for management and in most cases is a better 
approach.

Kind regards,
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