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

[Charles Marcus]

On 2/23/2009 12:12 PM, Timo Sirainen 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.

I know, but I'd prefer not to have them both installed if possible... ;)

> And having Dovecot support also client SASL would require a lot of
> new code which isn't used by Dovecot itself anywhere.

I understand... but it would still be nice... ;) maybe a good candidate
for the Goggle Summer of Code?

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Best regards,

Charles