[Dovecot] SASL bind for LDAP

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 16:20 +0200, Geert Jansen wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 23:02 +0100, Geert Jansen wrote:
> >   
> >> would it be possible to add support for SASL binds to dovecot's LDAP
> >> userdb/passdb? This would be a nice feature as it would allow the use of
> >> SASL EXTERNAL binds to a local LDAP server, thereby removing the need
> >> for storing clear-text passwords in configuration files.
> >>     
> >
> > It's already possible with 1.0beta1 and later.
> >   
> Hi Timo,
> 
> thanks for your answer. Can you explain how to enable SASL binds for
> LDAP in beta1 and onwards? I looked through the source and found no
> reference to SASL. 

Right. Sorry, I missed the "SASL" part in there.

> In fact, I even created a patch which I've been using
> since a while and seems to work quite nicely. It is attached to this email.

And sorry about taking so long to reply. If I don't act on the mail
immediately it seems to take nowadays a long time before I start reading
back my "unread" mails..

Anyway, your patch was fine and is now committed to CVS.

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