[Dovecot] running only the dovecot-auth service
Hi,
we are just testing postfix 2.3 in combination with its new dovecot SASL plugin. Now what we would like to have was dovecot SASL without acutally running dovecot ...
The reason for this is because we have the "real" dovecot running on a different server than the postfix instance and it would be nice if it would not be necessary running an "full" dovecot on that server for only SASL support.
So is it possible to start only the "dovecot-auth" part of dovecot?
Another idea that I had was to export the created auth socket via nfs. Somewhere, sometimes I think to have read that it was possible to use unix domain sockets over nfs mounted shares, but I am not sure about this (and have failed so far).
Udo Rader
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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:35:59PM +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
So is it possible to start only the "dovecot-auth" part of dovecot?
not currently.
we do this too; we just disable IMAP and leave POP3 listening on 127.0.0.1 only (also handy for testing).
Another idea that I had was to export the created auth socket via nfs. Somewhere, sometimes I think to have read that it was possible to use unix domain sockets over nfs mounted shares, but I am not sure about this (and have failed so far).
Sockets over networks are known as TCP/IP :). For this to work as described, NFS would have to gain the capability to stream data about willy-nilly. Let's hope that never happens.
/jg
-- Josh "Koshua" Goodall "as modern as tomorrow afternoon" joshua@roughtrade.net - FW109
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 18:11 +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:35:59PM +0200, Udo Rader wrote:
So is it possible to start only the "dovecot-auth" part of dovecot?
not currently.
we do this too; we just disable IMAP and leave POP3 listening on 127.0.0.1 only (also handy for testing).
Hmm, ok, not perfect, but still better than have it listen on the external IP.
Another idea that I had was to export the created auth socket via nfs. Somewhere, sometimes I think to have read that it was possible to use unix domain sockets over nfs mounted shares, but I am not sure about this (and have failed so far).
Sockets over networks are known as TCP/IP :). For this to work as described, NFS would have to gain the capability to stream data about willy-nilly. Let's hope that never happens.
Yes ... I cannot say much against it. My old brain just claims to have read some article about "difference windows sockets vs. unix domain sockets" and one of the differences "should" have been that unix domain sockets are useable over nfs mounts. But, obviously this seems quite unlikely, for sure :-)
regards
Udo Rader
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