On 2013-01-08 10:57 AM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.net wrote:
but he wants to use dovecot and uninstall cyrus-sasl-lib for whatever reason - it makes sense to use dovecot for SASL auth to make sure using the same auth-mechs and password databases in SMTP / IMAP / POP3 but i see no sense in using dovecot here you do NOT want to authenticate with your passwords on a foreign server nor leave the option to this due accident
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You're ignoring obvious scenarios...
What if I want to use a paid relay service that requires secure AUTH? Or use a relay that I control, but must be accessed over a public network (like the internet)? Right now I have to use (as you pointed out) cyrus-sasl, because dovecot-sasl doesn't (apparently) support client-side sasl at this time. I'd prefer to not have to install cyrus-sasl just to do it.
On 2013-01-08 12:12 PM, /dev/rob0 rob0@gmx.co.uk wrote:
I don't expect to see Dovecot providing client SASL.
I absolutely do recall Timo discussing implementing it at some point - this way dovecot could actually provide its own submission agent (one reason I'd love to see this would be the ability to DISABLE the 'Save copy to Sent folder' option in mail clients and do that on the server so the message doesn't have to be transferred over the wire twice, which is one thing I *love* about gmail).
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Best regards,
Charles