On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:35:43AM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Appreciate it. Is there an overview of your IMAP/POP3 server? Overview, tuturial, what dovecot does? newest features, etc?
Well, there's http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview and http://dovecot.org/talks/
The fellow who set up dovecoat origially has [ what I believe to be] an unnecessary SASL service. I would like to avoid all redundancies, save CPU, troubles, and so on. ...
Your SMTP server might be authenticating using the SASL service.
Yes, but because much of this was new I simply followed my
friend's guidelines blindly. Here are what I did (cut-and-pasted)
without understand much:
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Configuring Mail Services
Now we will begin with configuring the Sendmail SMTP server,
with SMTP-AUTH. When we compile Sendmail, we want it to
recognize that we will use SASL2 for smtp authentication. So,
we need to add these items to the file /etc/make.conf:
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2
SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2
Now, compile sasl2 and sasl2-saslauthd (in 1 operation):
# cd /usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd; make install
clean
Check the contents of /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf, make
sure it says: pwcheck_method: saslauthd
# cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
Configure saslauthd to load at boot. Add this to the end of
/etc/rc.conf:
saslauthd_enable="YES"
Start saslauthd
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd start
Now its time to recompile sendmail with SASL2 support.
# cd /usr/src/lib/libsm; make clean; make obj; make depend;
make
# cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil; make clean; make obj; make
depend; make
# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail; make clean; make obj; make
depend; make; make install
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This is from Jon Horne's own wiki pages,
http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org/index.php/Deploying_a_FreeBSD_6.2_Server
from 2007. Am I right that I no longer need the "cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd"
daemon and can get rid of it? I plan to use Jon's wiki page
and update using dovecot alone for my own how-to on building a
mail server. --It is one of three howto writeups I am working
on. In short, I want especially mail to be lean and *correct*.
Mostly correct!-- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php