[Dovecot] Postfix LDA vs the Dovecot LDA + other quetions

[Stephan Bosch]

Timo Sirainen schreef:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:50 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2/23/2009 9:21 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 23:58 -0800, Linux Advocate wrote:
>>>> 2. What is the benefit of using  Dovecot's SASL as compared to Cyrus SASL? Is there better performance?
>>> Probably not, but I've always hated configuring Cyrus SASL. It's not as
>>> flexible and the error and debug messages are worse.
>> I agree... but the one disadvantage to dovecot sasl is it cannot be used
>> as CLIENT mechanism... is adding this capability by any chance on the radar?
> 
> Well, as a client Cyrus SASL does pretty well already. And having
> Dovecot support also client SASL would require a lot of new code which
> isn't used by Dovecot itself anywhere.
It could however be used in the test suite somewhere, e.g. to test the 
SASL mechanisms themselves. So it would have some merit :)

Regards,

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Stephan Bosch
stephan at rename-it.nl