[Dovecot] [exim] request to have dovecot authenticator driver 'officially' included/supported

[Philip Hazel]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Beber wrote:

> > Which release of Dovecot?
> 
> I use dovecot 1.0_beta8

That's the same release I used.

> Any chance to make it work with ? Maybe you recommanded a newer
> release ?

I just installed the current Gentoo release, which is 1.0_beta8 to test 
that it was plausibly working. I don't actually *run* Dovecot (about 
which I know nothing).

My advice for trying to make it work is what I wrote before:

> > When I installed the patch I had to make a small change because the
> > Dovecot interface seemed to have changed. Let's make sure it isn't
> > that before we look further. Looking at the code, I see that indeed,
> > the change was concerned with "service".

> > If you take a look at the code in auths/dovecot.c you will find,
> > around line 189, an fprintf() statement and some comments about how
> > it replaces another one, which I've left as a comment. You might
> > like to try the alternative statement and see if it works for you.

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