[Dovecot] Postfix LDA vs the Dovecot LDA + other quetions

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Feb 23 19:12:03 EET 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:50 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 2/23/2009 9:21 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 23:58 -0800, Linux Advocate wrote:
> >> 2. What is the benefit of using  Dovecot's SASL as compared to Cyrus SASL? Is there better performance?
> > 
> > Probably not, but I've always hated configuring Cyrus SASL. It's not as
> > flexible and the error and debug messages are worse.
> 
> I agree... but the one disadvantage to dovecot sasl is it cannot be used
> as CLIENT mechanism... is adding this capability by any chance on the radar?

Well, as a client Cyrus SASL does pretty well already. And having
Dovecot support also client SASL would require a lot of new code which
isn't used by Dovecot itself anywhere.

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