dovecot - Sep 2006 - request to have dovecot authenticator driver 'officially' included/supported

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hi all,

per the exim docs @:

	http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch36.html

a cyrus_sasl authenticator driveer is 'included' in exim core.

given that Dovecot has become a very attractive alternative for an 
increasing number of folks, and there's a patch against exim 4.43 here:

	http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingDovecot

that allows use of Dovecot's native sasl implementation as an 
authenticator, and that is _seems_ to apply against 4.63 ok, might it 
be possible to get this integrated into exim core, and have it become 
'official'?

thanks,

richard

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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, OpenMacNews wrote:
> given that Dovecot has become a very attractive alternative for an
> increasing number of folks, and there's a patch against exim 4.43 here:
> 
>	http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingDovecot
> 
> that allows use of Dovecot's native sasl implementation as an
> authenticator, and that is _seems_ to apply against 4.63 ok, might it
> be possible to get this integrated into exim core, and have it become
> 'official'?
I will take a look at this in due course.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
Get the Exim 4 book:    http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, OpenMacNews wrote:
>	http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch36.html
> 
> a cyrus_sasl authenticator driveer is 'included' in exim core.
> 
> given that Dovecot has become a very attractive alternative for an
> increasing number of folks, and there's a patch against exim 4.43 here:
> 
>	http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingDovecot
> 
> that allows use of Dovecot's native sasl implementation as an
> authenticator, and that is _seems_ to apply against 4.63 ok, might it
> be possible to get this integrated into exim core, and have it become
> 'official'?
I have integrated this patch (it needed a little work - see ChangeLog).
I have done extremely preliminary testing against Dovecot 1.0_beta8 and
I think it is OK. The code will be in tonight's snapshot. If anybody who
is actually running Dovecot would like to do some more serious testing,
that would be good.

Philip

-- 
Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.