dovecot - May 2007 - Dovecot authentication for PostFix, anyone?

Greetings,

the postfix sasl readme, http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.htm 
says:
>Dovecot provides an [authentication alternative to Cyrus] that may be worth
considering.
In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.

The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
other relevant tips and tricks

TIA,
          Marco

> In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
> to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.
Cyrus-sasl != cyrus-imap...

It is a completely separate, standalone package...
> The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
> comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
> Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
> other relevant tips and tricks
http://wiki.dovecot.org/PostfixAndDovecotSASL

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

Hi,
I am using Dovecot and Postfix and they are playing very nice together.
Actually I had founded Cyrus-SASL poorly documented and little confusing to
Linux newbie (me) so I was happy when I was able to get rid of it. The page
you are talking about is up to date it is very easy to get it working.
I do not know about any other way how to authenticate through Dovecot and I
think there is no need to have it.

	L??a
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces at
dovecot.org] On
> Behalf Of Marco Fioretti
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:44 PM
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot authentication for PostFix, anyone?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> the postfix sasl readme, http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.htm
> says:
> 
> >Dovecot provides an [authentication alternative to Cyrus] that may be
> worth considering.
> 
> In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
> to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.
> 
> The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
> comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
> Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
> other relevant tips and tricks
> 
> TIA,
>           Marco

Marco Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> the postfix sasl readme, http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.htm 
> says:
> 
>> Dovecot provides an [authentication alternative to Cyrus] that may be
worth considering.
> 
> In principle, I like the idea of doing without Cyrus, since I have
> to run an IMAP server anyway and had already chosen Dovecot.
> 
> The question is if that page is up to date and if you could share
> comments or, if they exist, safer/more efficient ways to use
> Dovecot as authentication server for PostFix, as well as any
> other relevant tips and tricks
> 
ALTLinux provides in default installation of server-4.0 postfix with
authentication against dovecot (switchable to/from cyrus by web
configuration interface). Works perfect.
-- 
	Sergey Ivanov