Mario Pavlov wrote, On 3/28/09 8:36 AM:

Hi, so sendmail can use only cyrus-sasl ?

Right.

SASL is only standardized in the network-facing parts: a collection of named and specified authentication mechanisms. Cyrus and Dovecot offer extremely different interfaces to different sets of back-end services for other software to use. Supporting Dovecot SASL in an MTA requires creating a completely different interface than is used for Cyrus, and Dovecot does not provide all of the functionality that Cyrus does.

ok, thank you

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Mario Pavlov wrote:

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I was wondering if I can make sendmail use dovecot's SASL implementation...maybe I should somehow compile it against dovecot's SASL ? My idea is to make sendmail and dovecot authenticate against one central user/password repository. Is this possible ?

thank you.

P.S. I want to use virtual users

Sendmail uses cyrus-sasl (only?).

You can make cyrus-sasl and dovecot-sasl use "common master" e.g. LDAP or PAM. "LDAP centric" approach is a standard recommendation if you plan multi server mail system with multiple "mailbox servers"/"filtering gateways".

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