[Dovecot] Dovecot communication with sasl in dovecot source code

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jun 30 08:38:49 EEST 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 12:07 +0430, Meisam Navaki wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm reading dovecot source codes(2.0.13),and I need to know how dovecot
> communicate with sasl?

For what purpose? Dovecot's login process communicates with auth process
via http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Design/AuthProtocol

> I traced the source code from cmd_login function,and found out something
> about sasl_callback.
> but i never found where this function called and also I couldn't understand
> how sasl inform the dovecot from authentication result.
> I'll be thankful if someone could help me out.

The code is a bit tricky jumping all around.. I can help more if you
tell me what it is that you actually want to do.




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