On 28 March 2013, at 21:53, Grant wrote: >> I recently switched from Thunderbird to Roundcube (highly >> recommended), switched to the non-SSL courier daemon, and plugged the >> firewall hole since courier resides on the same system as my web >> server. Do I still need cyrus-sasl or will a webmail client >> authenticate directly with courier? > > Can anyone tell me if it's necessary to run cyrus-sasl between courier > and a webmail client if they're on the same machine?
I have a very old installation of net-mail/courier-imap I don't believe I have ever run cyrus-sasl on it. I have accessed this system via Squirrelmail, IMAP and (I think) IMAP-over-SSL. I find now that I have net-libs/courier-authlib installed. Things may have changed considerably since I installed this system, a long time ago, but there used to be two separate packages net-mail/courier-imap and mail-mta/courier. I think courier-imap was just the IMAP server, split off from the larger mail-mta/courier, which was the full package from upstream and which included some other stuff. Last time I looked at this, dovecot seemed superior to courier, and worked very well for me when I installed it for someone else. I was able to configure it with PAM, to authenticate via Samba from a windows domain controller. I remember the developer of dovecot as really helpful - I think I had a problem and he produced a patch which fixed it within 24 hours. I have it in mind to replace courier with dovecot when I get around to replacing my current mail server. Stroller.
