dovecot - Jul 2003 - How to use SASL2?

How does one use SASL2 for authentication? I looked for docs but found
none.

Thanks in advance.

Matt

On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 02:02, grpmind+dovecot at boromir.vpop.net
wrote:
> How does one use SASL2 for authentication? I looked for docs but found
> none.
There's some code for supporting Cyrus' SASL library, but it hasn't
been
tested for a while and I doubt that it works. I don't really have plans
to make it work either.

Why do you want it anyway? Dovecot supports PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5 and
ANONYMOUS SASL mechanisms internally. Most important missing one is
Kerberos 5 I think.

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 02:02, grpmind+dovecot at boromir.vpop.net wrote:
> 
>>How does one use SASL2 for authentication? I looked for docs but found
>>none.
> 
> There's some code for supporting Cyrus' SASL library, but it
hasn't been
> tested for a while and I doubt that it works. I don't really have plans
> to make it work either.
> 
> Why do you want it anyway? Dovecot supports PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5 and
> ANONYMOUS SASL mechanisms internally. Most important missing one is
> Kerberos 5 I think.
I'm not really interested in using SASL for its own sake, but because
it's a way to get dovecot to authenticate against my mysql users db. I might
try to write a patch to implement mysql support for dovecot, hopefully good
enough for you to commit.

Matt