dovecot - Dec 2005 - PATCH: Dovecot SASL authentication for Postfix 2.3-20051220

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I'm adding the finishing touch to the Postfix Dovecot plug-in, to
be released with snapshot 20051223. The plug-in code quality is
generally very good.

I had two observations, both of minor importance:

- The authentication server protocol uses the TAB character as a
delimiter, so it is critical that legitimate user names don't
contain this character.  This is of course trivial to ensure with
the authentication server implementation, so I will not worry about
it.

- I noticed that the plug-in did not satisfy one Postfix principle,
namely that operations be bounded in time. I added a time limit
for connect, read and write operations. Postfix will time-bound
all operations anyway, but the diagnostics of the watchdog timer
are less specific and therefore less useful.

	Wietse

On Wednesday 2005-December-21 14:36, Timo Sirainen
wrote:
> Tested with PLAIN authentication. Doesn't require any external
> libraries.
Tested here in Postfix 2.3-20051223, PLAIN over TLS, and it works: a 
good username/password combination authenticates and a bad one is 
rejected. :)

Thanks again to both Timo and Wietse for their work on this feature,  
and let me be the first to kick of this year's slew of posts wishing 
"happy holidays" to all. (I'm cheating by crossposting this. :) )
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