[Dovecot] SASL

Timo Sirainen
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:53:46 -0000

On 12.10.2004, at 10:47, alan premselaar wrote:

> I've been browsing the wiki and thru my mail-list archives but
haven't
> found an answer.  does/can dovecot 0.99.x support authenticating with
> a SASL database?

Nope. Maybe some day, but not in my near future plans.

> I'm not familiar at all with LDAP. I know that sendmail will
> authenticate to a SASL database and it's fairly easy to setup. My goal
> is that I can support "real" users (actual user accounts) but
allow
> their mail passwords to be different than their login passwords, and
> changeable via some sort of CGI interface.

MySQL or PostgreSQL would be probably easiest way to do it.
wiki.dovecot.org has some howtos for them.
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