[Dovecot] SASL from remote server

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 19:31 +0200, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> 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.

Probably not that difficult, but I see this as a pretty low priority
feature.

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