Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > Well, -heavy links against libldap2 and libldap2 links against libsasl2. > I am not sure, but I guess Gergely is right and linking exim4 directly > against libsasl2 would not bring additional performance/memory > penalties. (_If_ libldap2 will continue to link against libsasl2.) > > I think 30s of the ldap's maintainers' time on IRC would clear this up > for sure.
I think, it will, since ldap's only real strong authentication mechanism is sasl per rfc. However, it will compile a new authenticator, so little disk space will be wasted, but it is not really a waste, since sasl authentication is _really useful_. With it, you can do smtp auth _cleanly_ (sasl's way) on a sasl based system (for example a common setup with cyrus-imapd). I think it is not a minority request and arrives now only, because it wasn't available in upstream, until now. It is certainly more important in a *unix* system, than strange microsoft authentication mechanism (SPA) which compiled in in heavy builds. >> Anyway, we need to postpone that bug until 4.44 has arrived in sarge >> as I don't think it would be a good idea to reset our counter for this. > >> In the absence of testing-proposed-updates, I wouldn't dare to compile >> cyrus-sasl into the exim4 packages without the release team's approval. > > Agreed on both counts. > cu andreas Agreed on both, but please ask them this way: "What a fantastic will be, if we can include cyrus-sasl auth in exim4 with sarge?" and not this way: "Do we really need this cyrus-sasl thing in exim4 with sarge or we can postpone it?". Easy integratibility with other software components in the main system (cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imap is in the main) will be a big point in Sarge's quality. And keep in mind, that if we won't do it now, we won't do it for another two-three years (the next stable release). In two years the smtp auth systems will probably get a lot wider acceptance in the world (because of spam, spf, domainkeys, whatever). Thanks for your help anyway, Gergely -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
