Wietse Venema:
> jeff geng:
> > Wietse:
> >
> > Happy new year :)
> >
> > We use niginx's smtp function to redirect mail to postfix server. But in
> > postfix, XCLIENT command can't support the LOGIN paremeter.
> > Severial months ago, I write a patch for postfix-2.5.3. Now nginx official
> > website also supply a patch for this situation as followed:
> > http://www.citrin.ru/nginx:xclient-login-patch. In additional, my patch also
> > support xforward function.
>
> I have adopted the nginx:xclient-login-patch in Postfix 2.9, and
> have made it easier to use. You can now send "XCLIENT LOGIN=username"
> without having to specify "smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes" in main.cf.
> I think this must be the least painful way to use SASL with Postfix.
>
> You still need to compile Postfix with -DUSE_SASL_AUTH because
> otherwise some data structure fields don't exist, but I don't think
> that would be a problem.
>
> Merry christmas.
Released as postfix-2.9-20111218, meaning it will be part of the
stable Postfix 2.9 release. What was the purpose of the XFORWARD
patch? I don't recall seeing that code.
Wietse
