On 28 March 2013, at 21:53, Grant wrote:
>> I recently switched from Thunderbird to Roundcube (highly
>> recommended), switched to the non-SSL courier daemon, and plugged the
>> firewall hole since courier resides on the same system as my web
>> server. Do I still need cyrus-sasl or will a webmail client
>> authenticate directly with courier?
>
> Can anyone tell me if it's necessary to run cyrus-sasl between courier
> and a webmail client if they're on the same machine?
I have a very old installation of net-mail/courier-imap
I don't believe I have ever run cyrus-sasl on it. I have accessed this system
via Squirrelmail, IMAP and (I think) IMAP-over-SSL.
I find now that I have net-libs/courier-authlib installed.
Things may have changed considerably since I installed this system, a long time
ago, but there used to be two separate packages net-mail/courier-imap and
mail-mta/courier. I think courier-imap was just the IMAP server, split off from
the larger mail-mta/courier, which was the full package from upstream and which
included some other stuff.
Last time I looked at this, dovecot seemed superior to courier, and worked very
well for me when I installed it for someone else. I was able to configure it
with PAM, to authenticate via Samba from a windows domain controller. I
remember the developer of dovecot as really helpful - I think I had a problem
and he produced a patch which fixed it within 24 hours.
I have it in mind to replace courier with dovecot when I get around to
replacing my current mail server.
Stroller.
