On Monday 2005-November-28 06:13, Udo Rader wrote:
If your MTA is Postfix (which appears so from your headers) Timo has a patch which ties in SASL AUTH support without using Cyrus SASL. I use it and recommend it highly. See the Postfix SASL_README and the patch at http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/ (for Postfix 2.2.x) or my own ports of it to the 2.3 snapshots: http://www.nodns4.us/postfix-2.3-20051121-dovecot-auth.patch.gz
http://www.nodns4.us/postfix-2.3-20050630-dovecot-auth.patch.gz still exists for those who got on the bleeding edge but were too lazy to stay there. :)
I'm not the original poster of the question, yet I have a question about this patch.
What would be the benefits of using this patch? I mean, dovecot is
The main benefit is that you don't have to use nor install Cyrus SASL. It's also very simple to set up: once you set all the options it Just Works.
supposed to have its own SASL implementation (as stated in the docs) and we are even using it. So why would one need a specific patch for postfix when dovecot is completely on its own feet?
IIUC Postfix cannot use Dovecot SASL without the patch. Timo could probably give a definitive answer.
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