seeking sasl configuration example

[Edgar Pettijohn III]

On Apr 26, 2015, at 4:32 AM, shadrock uhuru wrote:

> hi everyone
> could someone show me there sasl configuration section in their
> dovecot.conf,
> i have postfix and dovecot setup for virtual users (no system users)
> everything works fine including tls,
> i have tried various examples off the web for sasl but they either have
> obsolete parameters
> or are for a setup with system users,
> i would prefer to use dovecots sasl implementation.
> 
> dovecot --version = 2.1.7
> 
> cat dovecot.conf
> 
> ######################
> ######################
> 
> disable_plaintext_auth = no
> mail_privileged_group = mail
> 
> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
> # auth_verbose=yes
> # auth_debug=yes
> # auth_debug_passwords=yes
> mail_debug=yes
> # verbose_ssl=yes
> 
> passdb {
>  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>  driver = sql
> }
> userdb {
>  driver = prefetch
> }
> userdb {
>  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>  driver = sql
> }
> 
> 
> protocols = "pop3 imap lmtp"
> 
> protocol imap {
>  mail_plugins = " autocreate"
> }
> 
> plugin {
>  autocreate = Trash
>  autocreate2 = Sent
>  autocreate3 = junk
>  autosubscribe = Trash
>  autosubscribe2 = Sent
>  autosubscribe3 = junk
> }
> 
> service auth {
>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>    group = postfix
>    mode = 0660
>    user = postfix
>  }
> }
> 

That should do it.  You just need to make sure postfix is set up correctly.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL

> 
> service lmtp {
>    unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
>    group = postfix
>    mode = 0600
>    user = postfix
>    }
> }
> protocol lmtp {
>    postmaster_address=postmaster at mydomain.com
>    hostname=niya.mydomain.com
> }
> 
> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailcert.pem
> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.key
> 
> ######################
> ######################
> 
> 
> thanks
> shadrock