[Dovecot] Dovecot authentication for PostFix, anyone?

2007-05-31 Thread Marco Fioretti
Greetings,

the postfix sasl readme, http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.htm 
says:

Dovecot provides an [authentication alternative to Cyrus] that may be worth 
considering.

In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.

The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
other relevant tips and tricks

TIA,
  Marco



Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot authentication for PostFix, anyone?

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Marcus

In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.


Cyrus-sasl != cyrus-imap...

It is a completely separate, standalone package...


The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
other relevant tips and tricks


http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostfixAndDovecotSASL

--

Best regards,

Charles


Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot authentication for PostFix, anyone?

2007-05-31 Thread Láďa
Hi,
I am using Dovecot and Postfix and they are playing very nice together.
Actually I had founded Cyrus-SASL poorly documented and little confusing to
Linux newbie (me) so I was happy when I was able to get rid of it. The page
you are talking about is up to date it is very easy to get it working.
I do not know about any other way how to authenticate through Dovecot and I
think there is no need to have it.

Láďa

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 Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot authentication for PostFix, anyone?
 
 Greetings,
 
 the postfix sasl readme, http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.htm
 says:
 
 Dovecot provides an [authentication alternative to Cyrus] that may be
 worth considering.
 
 In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
 to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.
 
 The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
 comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
 Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
 other relevant tips and tricks
 
 TIA,
   Marco



Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot authentication for PostFix, anyone?

2007-05-31 Thread Sergey
Marco Fioretti wrote:
 Greetings,
 
 the postfix sasl readme, http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.htm 
 says:
 
 Dovecot provides an [authentication alternative to Cyrus] that may be worth 
 considering.
 
 In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
 to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.
 
 The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
 comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
 Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
 other relevant tips and tricks
 
ALTLinux provides in default installation of server-4.0 postfix with
authentication against dovecot (switchable to/from cyrus by web
configuration interface). Works perfect.
-- 
Sergey Ivanov