[Dovecot] Dovecot SASL on another machine

[Tobias Hachmer]

Am 05.11.2011 17:35, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 17:31 +0100, Tobias Hachmer wrote:
>> Am 05.11.2011 17:01, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
>> > On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 15:13 +0100, Tobias Hachmer wrote:
>> >> is there a way to use Dovecot SASL Authentication for submission 
>> on
>> >> a
>> >> different machine dovecot runs?
>> >
>> > With v2.0 you should be able to add inet_listener for auth 
>> service,
>> > which acts as an auth-client socket.
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. I think I didn't couch correct.
>> I want a postfix machine to authenticate against Dovecot SASL for
>> submission service which hasn't installed dovecot locally.
>> The postfix machine has to ask my central dovecot which is at the
>> moment dovecot v1.2.15 but will be soon v2.
>
> Yes, this is how I understood it.

OK, sorry.

>> Is this possible, if yes, how?
>
> With v2.0:
>
> service auth {
>   inet_listener {
>     port = 12345
>   }
> }
>
> Postfix:
>
> smtpd_sasl_path = inet:dovecot.foobar.com:12345

Thanks a lot for your quick help!!!

Greetz, Tobias