[Dovecot] SASL from remote server

[Marcus Rueckert]

On 2007-09-17 19:59:37 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 17.9.2007, at 19.25, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> 
> >Is there a way, using Dovecot and Postfix, to use SASL from a  
> >remote server?  Since it appears the communication uses Unix  
> >sockets, does this mean it is restricted to local services only?
> 
> Not directly, but there are programs that can do unix <-> tcp socket  
> proxying. Maybe some day when dovecot-auth is separated into its own  
> dovecot-sasl package that could be added.

how difficult would it be to add it now? given that dovecot is gaining
more and more popularity, the feature might help to get more people to
migrate to dovecot.

    darix

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