sasl service for other app

justina colmena ~biz justina at colmena.biz
Fri Dec 9 06:24:10 UTC 2022


So this should allow postfix to piggyback on top of whatever dovecot auth 
is being used.

On Thursday, December 8, 2022 4:49:06 AM AKST, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> On 12/7/22 21:53, Henry R wrote:
>> can dovecot run as a general sasl service for other apps? such as webdav.
>
> I am using dovecot to provide authentication for postfix 
> submission.  This is the config in postfix:
>
> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
> # Referring to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
> smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
>
> In /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf I have this:
>
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>     mode = 0666
>     user = postfix
>     group = postfix
>   }
>
> If the application supports using a socket for sasl, then I 
> would imagine that Dovecot should work.
>
> Postfix is using the same postfixadmin database for email 
> addresses that Dovecot is, but for authentication, it's all 
> Dovecot.
>
> I should probably look into Dovecot's submission support so I 
> don't need to have postfix using that auth socket, just haven't 
> found the time.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
>
>

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