Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Udo Rader wrote: Hmm, I've never heard of dovecot being able to deal with non-plaintext passwords in connection with SASL. Are you sure that that can be done without patching? Dovecot supports[1] quite a few non-plaintext mechanisms. 1: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/Mechanisms Which

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Udo Rader : > Hmm, I've never heard of dovecot being able to deal with non-plaintext > passwords in connection with SASL. Are you sure that that can be done > without patching? I haven't used Dovecot like that myself, but the documentation indicates you can set a $default_pass_scheme which a

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread David Bishop
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:28:36PM +0200, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 04.02.2009 18:14, David Bishop wrote: > [...] > > So, the group-mind consensus is to use the following for a (relatively) > > small virtual-hosting mail environment: > > > > postfix (obviously) + dovecot's SASL for smtp-auth and mail

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread Eray Aslan
On 04.02.2009 18:14, David Bishop wrote: [...] > So, the group-mind consensus is to use the following for a (relatively) > small virtual-hosting mail environment: > > postfix (obviously) + dovecot's SASL for smtp-auth and maildir > dovecot for imap/pop > maia for spam/virus filtering (with clamav)

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread Udo Rader
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: * David Bishop : On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:31:23AM +0100, Martin Schmitt wrote: David Bishop schrieb: What are my options? I don't have a lot of experience with dovecot (it's been a few years for me) and thus don't really know anything about its SASL implementatio

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread David Bishop
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:12:10AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > I highly recommend changing to dovecot if you have the opportunity... > the performance difference is incredible, as Patrick pointed out, and I > have to say, Timo does far more than a 'good job' on dovecot... he > usually will have

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/4/2009, David Bishop (t...@gnuconsulting.com) wrote: > So are you recommending dropping courier for imap/pop completely? Or > just using the SASL portion of dovecot? I guess I don't particularly > care what imap/pop server I use, as long as it can use a > crypted-password from a mysql databas

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-04 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* David Bishop : > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:31:23AM +0100, Martin Schmitt wrote: > > David Bishop schrieb: > > > > > What are my options? I don't have a lot of experience with dovecot (it's > > > been a few years for me) and thus don't really know anything about its > > > SASL implementation.

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-03 Thread David Bishop
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:31:23AM +0100, Martin Schmitt wrote: > David Bishop schrieb: > > > What are my options? I don't have a lot of experience with dovecot (it's > > been a few years for me) and thus don't really know anything about its > > SASL implementation. Should I move away from SASL

Re: Taking over for another admin

2009-02-03 Thread Martin Schmitt
David Bishop schrieb: > What are my options? I don't have a lot of experience with dovecot (it's > been a few years for me) and thus don't really know anything about its > SASL implementation. Should I move away from SASL completely? Any > suggestions (or requests for clarification) would be gr

Taking over for another admin

2009-02-03 Thread David Bishop
is always a bit... tricky. Things that they thought would be blindingly obvious is, maybe, not so much. And systems that grew organically over time can appear to the jaundiced outsider's view as a bit, um, kludgy. Well, that's the situation I find myself in today. I'm stepping into a "new to me