SASL has nothing to do with Dovecot authentication. It is only needed
by Postfix for user authentication. If you're sure that no untrusted
user can connect to your Postfix server, then you can get Postfix to
relay mail for them by setting the mynetworks_style or mynetworks
directives as applicable. As an aside, note that by applying Timo's
patch to Postfix (http://www.dovecot.org/patches/postfix/) you should
be able to get Postfix to authenticate against Dovecot without having
to run a separate SASL process.
- Pete
On Jan 1, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Tom Allison wrote:
> I'm reading through the dovecot wiki pages for virtual hosting with
> postgresql/postfix/dovecot/debian and it looks pretty nice but I think
> I'm going to skip the SASL authentication since I'm in a trusted
> network.
>
> I think all I need to do is skip section 5 entirely and bypass all the
> sasl references in the postfix section.
>
> Technically, I don't think any of the SASL has much to do with the
> dovecot configuration.
>