On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 06:51:23PM +0100, mouss wrote:
> > I have never had a problem with cyrus-sasl configuration and usage. I
> > am presently using cyrus-sasl with mysql and it works flawlessly. I have
> > had problems in the past with Dovecot and authentication when Dovecot
> > was updated. I honestly don't remember the last time that I had to
> > update cyrus though. In any case, I prefer to keep things isolated in a
> > situation like this. It makes debugging easier, or at least for me it
> > does.
> >
>
> on the other side, with cyrus-sasl, you are linking complex code with
> postfix. with dovecot, only a small portion to implemented dovecot-auth
> protocol is included.
Let's not hijack the user's thread into a discussion of Cyrus SASL or
Dovecot SASL pros and cons.
The OP, if he still needs help needs to be more explicit about the
client configuration and capabilities, and needs to read
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
to learn more about SASL support in the Postfix SMTP server.
--
Viktor.
