[Dovecot] Dovecot communication with sasl in dovecot source code

[Meisam Navaki]

> Actually,I want to disable authentication in dovecot.I don't want dovecot
> to authenticate.For that,I'm looking for into dovecot source code to find
> where dovecot compares passwords or do something like this.I found fuction
> named sasl_serever_auth_begin,but I couldn't understand what does it exactly
> do.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 12:07 +0430, Meisam Navaki wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > I'm reading dovecot source codes(2.0.13),and I need to know how dovecot
>> > communicate with sasl?
>>
>> For what purpose? Dovecot's login process communicates with auth process
>> via http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design/AuthProtocol
>>
>> > I traced the source code from cmd_login function,and found out something
>> > about sasl_callback.
>> > but i never found where this function called and also I couldn't
>> understand
>> > how sasl inform the dovecot from authentication result.
>> > I'll be thankful if someone could help me out.
>>
>> The code is a bit tricky jumping all around.. I can help more if you
>> tell me what it is that you actually want to do.
>>
>>
>>
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