[Dovecot] SASL Support

[Joakim Ryden]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:02, Ken Crain wrote:
> I need to support Outlook/Outlook Express users of Sendmail with SMTP
> Authorization.  From what I can see, the LOGIN method available in
> Outlook/Outlook Express is the only applicable way to go at this
> time.  It appears it is not supported in Dovecot right now.  Is this
> correct and, if so, how would I go about adding this support?

Hi Ken -

I think you may be confusing the IMAP/POP server (Dovecot) function with
the SMTP server (Sendmail) function. You need SASL support in the SMTP
server, which has nothing to do with the IMAP/POP server. 

Unless you're talking about authenticating the SMTP users and the
IMAP/POP users against the same database and you are using sasldb for
the SMTP authentication in which case I think you are out of luck right
now. You can configure the SASL library to use password/shadow, SQL,
LDAP or PAM though in which case Dovecot and Sendmail could use the same
source for authentication.

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html
http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/doc/auth.txt

HTH,
Jo