On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, /dev/rob0 wrote:
On Saturday 16 September 2006 08:56, Dag Wieers wrote:
I know that postfix 2.3 can use dovecot directly for sasl authentication, and that would be a neat solution, but we're stuck with postfix 2.2.
You, of all people, stuck?!?! How could that be?
I used several of your RPMs (thanks!) to improve a RHEL4 machine. You didn't have a Postfix 2.3 RPM, but I got the SRPM from Simon Mudd. There was simply no way I would accept an artificial limit on software versions, doing things the hard way, when Wietse and Timo have already solved those problems.
Postfix 2.3 on RHEL4 is working nicely with Dovecot SASL.
But you loose support from Red Hat (or CentOsS) and every customization makes you drift away from a certain standard. So you have different arguments for or against a change from the standard and some things weigh up more than others.
Luckily I'm happy with the saslauthd rimap solution without needing to move postfix from supported (think: security assessment and security updates) to unsupported. Even though they both probably work fine and there may not be any security problems, ever :)
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]