On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Richard P. Welty wrote: > mildly OT, but i'm sure someone here has an answer. > > i'm trying to set up the dovecot authenticator > with exim. exim version is 4.66, dovecot is 1.0.rc27 > > dovecot is insisting on putting the authentication > process in /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.<pid>, > the presence of the pid making it hard to write the > exim configuration. the dovecot documentation of the > config file is hard to follow, and it appears that 1.0.rc27 > may not follow it precisely anyway. > > anyone have any experience or suggestions for this?
No experience, but the very small "proof of concept" test that I run has this authenticator: dovecot: driver = dovecot public_name = PLAIN server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client server_set_id = $auth1 Note: auth-client, not auth-worker. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
