[Dovecot] SMTP Auth Issue for non /etc/passwd accounts

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jul 17 20:30:48 EEST 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:28 -0400, Mark R. Baith wrote:
> Timo - Sorry:  We forwarded one of the many dovecot.confs
> we've been playing with; (that one had auth turned off;)
> 
> We're using "sendmail."  Here's the auth dovecot.conf;

Well, Sendmail doesn't support doing authentication via Dovecot. You'll
need to figure out something else. I don't know if Cyrus SASL (which
Sendmail uses for auth) supports passwd-like files. I think it doesn't.

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