[Dovecot] dovecot proxy with nopassword and postfix sasl

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 12:54 +0200, Simone Caruso wrote:
> Il 13/05/2011 15:07, Franco Rizzo ha scritto:
> > Hello thank you for your answer
> > 
> > when I have this user in my passdb file
> > franco at ozzir.ch:{plain}password::::::proxy host=xx.xx.xx.xx
> > postfix sasl accept only the password => password
> > 
> > When I have this user in my passdb file
> > franco at ozzir.ch:::::::nopassword proxy host=xx.xx.xx.xx
> > postfix sasl accept any password
> > 
> And i think this is all normal...
> From:
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy
> I don't think it is allowed behaviour for Postfix to authenticate on a dovecot
> proxy.

Right. If you really want to, with v2.0 you could do:

protocol smtp {
  passdb for your sql/ldap/whatever database that has passwords
}
protocol !smtp {
  passdb for proxy without passwords
}