SASL has nothing to do with Dovecot authentication. It is only needed by Postfix for user authentication. If you're sure that no untrusted user can connect to your Postfix server, then you can get Postfix to relay mail for them by setting the mynetworks_style or mynetworks directives as applicable. As an aside, note that by applying Timo's patch to Postfix (http://www.dovecot.org/patches/postfix/) you should be able to get Postfix to authenticate against Dovecot without having to run a separate SASL process.
- Pete
On Jan 1, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Tom Allison wrote:
I'm reading through the dovecot wiki pages for virtual hosting with postgresql/postfix/dovecot/debian and it looks pretty nice but I think I'm going to skip the SASL authentication since I'm in a trusted network.
I think all I need to do is skip section 5 entirely and bypass all the sasl references in the postfix section.
Technically, I don't think any of the SASL has much to do with the dovecot configuration.