> Unless using AUTH to a replicated or central auth mechanism like SQL
> or  LDAP. Your gateway simply has to have a mechanism for supporting
> it,  which  almost  all  should support the AUTH in conjunction with
> SASL or PAM.

Though  I  would  be  confident  that  with  custom  code,  you  could
*eventually* get saslauthd and/or pam to talk to a SQL Server DB using
IMail's  DDL, I don't know of anyone doing that now. So I'm a bit more
conservative  about the gap between theoretical interoperability and a
stable  implementation.  MySQL  would  likely  work  after  a  shorter
fashion, and LDAP is definitely doable already.

> (it'd probably be more secure than IMail anyway :)

I don't quite get this. If you're pushing the DB in the clear, even if
you  expect  the  gateway  to  hash  it  after  it's  processed (using
saslpasswd  or  similar), anyone who compromises the box would be able
to  intercept the plain-text upload. Or are you suggesting hashing the
passwords  with the gateway's algorithm before uploading them? This is
reasonable, but hey, you can encrypt passwords with IMail, too, if you
want.

-Sandy


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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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