[Dovecot] Dovecot using authsasld

[Anand Buddhdev]

Gerard Seibert writes:

> On Saturday 16 September 2006 13:46, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
>> But I found a workaround, apparently authsasld is able to authenticate
>> against dovecot IMAP using 'rimap' authentication mechanism. Sadly this
>> means I have to enable PLAIN IMAP password authentication in dovecot.
> 
> Where did you find the documentation for 'rimap'? I might like to look into 
> it also.

man saslauthd

I've used this method in the past to get exim to use saslauthd to 
authenticate SMTP connections. I found it too messy for my taste. These 
days, I tend to keep user accounts (even if it is just 20) in mysql. That 
way, exim (or postfix), dovecot (or courier-imap), apache and pure-ftpd can 
all make use of the same user database, and I can easily move between 
postfix and exim, or courier-imap and dovecot, depending on my mood :)

Adding and removing users is made trivial by tools such as PhpMyAdmin.

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Anand