On 29 Mar 2002, Simon Matter writes: > Mee too I don't know what is much better with DB4. I just tried it > and wanted the SRPM to be ready when DB4 comes in. I have expected > to see cyrus-sasl 2.x and DB4 in the upcoming RedHat release. Both > packages were on rawhide but now it seems they are gone. They are > not in skipjack-beta1.
> Maybe this meens that DB4 is not important for RedHat but what about > sasl? Maybe it was too much trouble with sasl2 and that's why they > stay with 1.5.24. I hope not because it will make usage of > cyrus-imapd 2.x more difficult in future. Until sendmail supports SASL v2, I think SASLv2 will be a hard sell, at least for smaller installations. Users who use Cyrus for IMAP often also need to use sendmail (or Exim or Postfix, but sendmail is what comes installed "out of the box") for outbound mail, and that means SMTP AUTH to avoid 'relaying denied', and that means a password database... as far as I can see, right now that means either (i) have two databases, such as /etc/sasldb and /etc/sasldb2, and somehow keep them synced, or (ii) use LDAP or some other external database and point both SASL versions at it. This seems pretty cumbersome to me, unless you already need or want LDAP for other reasons. Or is there a simple way to have Cyrus IMAPd 2.1.3 and sendmail 8.12.2 use the same SASL db that I didn't spot? Jonathan
