[Dovecot] auth on tcp socket?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 12:26 +0100, Hajo Locke wrote:

> is it possible to provide service auth on tcp-socket instead of unix-socket?
> I changed my conf and dovecot 2.0.5 is restarting but on telnet test it throws:
> dovecot: auth: Fatal: getsockname(12) failed: Socket operation on non-socket
> 
> Want to separate smtp and imap to different servers but keep using dovecot auth for postfix-sasl.
> Whats to do? hmm, is postfix able to use non-unix socket for dovecot-sasl?

Well, added support for that:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/fe8e82b5bff9