Am 08.01.2013 16:43, schrieb Urban Loesch: > For this you don't need dovecot on your site. > > I use it as follows on my debian lenny. > installed packages: postfix, libsasl2-modules > needed main.cf configuration options: > > ... > relayhost = [the.relayserver.com] > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_passwd > smtp_use_tls = yes > smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
but he wants to use dovecot and uninstall cyrus-sasl-lib for whatever reason - it makes sense to use dovecot for SASL auth to make sure using the same auth-mechs and password databases in SMTP / IMAP / POP3 but i see no sense in using dovecot here you do NOT want to authenticate with your passwords on a foreign server nor leave the option to this due accident
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