Roland Plüss wrote, On 1/13/09 9:47 AM:
Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote:
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Gentoo is not the issue, however the different SASL implementations can
be an interesting experiment to get working.
Dovecot SASL is easier, IMO, to setup and configure and you can disable
the IMAP services from starting simply enough.
Hm... I tried Cyrus so far. What's the difference between the two except
the configuration?
1. Dovecot SASL is a free-standing authentication daemon rather than
libraries that have to be linked into Postfix, which eliminates the
opportunity for failure from having a mismatch between the libraries used to
build Postfix and the ones in place at run time.
2. Dovecot only provides authentication for the SMTP server side of Postfix,
so if you need to have the SMTP or LMTP client parts of Postfix
authenticate themselves to a server, Cyrus is your only choice.
And the config difference is a significant one. A SASL implementation that
one cannot figure out how to configure has absolutely no functionality. It
is also possible to configure Cyrus functionally but very insecurely, which
is likely to be more difficult to accomplish with Dovecot.
