http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_sasl_security_options says "the following security features are defined for the cyrus server .". Dovecot is not mentioned. So, is it correct to interpret this to mean that this postfix setting is a noop when dovecot is used for sasl authentication?
And how does Postfix know which authentication mechanisms to offer the client? Does dovecot communicate this to postfix somehow? Thanks, Michael