On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 17:31 +0100, Tobias Hachmer wrote: > Am 05.11.2011 17:01, schrieb Timo Sirainen: > > On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 15:13 +0100, Tobias Hachmer wrote: > >> is there a way to use Dovecot SASL Authentication for submission on > >> a > >> different machine dovecot runs? > > > > With v2.0 you should be able to add inet_listener for auth service, > > which acts as an auth-client socket. > > Thanks for your reply. I think I didn't couch correct. > I want a postfix machine to authenticate against Dovecot SASL for > submission service which hasn't installed dovecot locally. > The postfix machine has to ask my central dovecot which is at the > moment dovecot v1.2.15 but will be soon v2.
Yes, this is how I understood it. > Is this possible, if yes, how? With v2.0: service auth { inet_listener { port = 12345 } } Postfix: smtpd_sasl_path = inet:dovecot.foobar.com:12345