Mario Pavlov wrote, On 3/28/09 8:36 AM:
Hi,
so sendmail can use only cyrus-sasl ?
Right.
SASL is only standardized in the network-facing parts: a collection of named
and specified authentication mechanisms. Cyrus and Dovecot offer extremely
different interfaces to different sets of back-end services for other
software to use. Supporting Dovecot SASL in an MTA requires creating a
completely different interface than is used for Cyrus, and Dovecot does not
provide all of the functionality that Cyrus does.
ok, thank you
>Mario Pavlov wrote:
>> I was wondering if I can make sendmail use dovecot's SASL
>> implementation...maybe I should somehow compile it against dovecot's
>> SASL ? My idea is to make sendmail and dovecot authenticate against
>> one central user/password repository. Is this possible ?
>>
>> thank you.
>>
>> P.S. I want to use virtual users
>
>Sendmail uses cyrus-sasl (only?).
>
>You can make cyrus-sasl and dovecot-sasl use "common master"
>e.g. LDAP or PAM.
>"LDAP centric" approach is a standard recommendation if you plan multi
>server mail system with multiple "mailbox servers"/"filtering gateways".
>
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