Securing postfix to dovecot (SASL) auth

Peter
Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:16:27 -0000

On 27/09/17 12:07, Raymond Sellars wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to secure the Dovecot SASL auth provider for postfix?
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
>
> I'm currently using the inet option to provide SASL auth to postfix for
dovecot. Both installs are on different hosts hence the use of inet rather than
unix socket.

Postfix does not support this natively, and I don't think dovecot does
either.  That said, it should be relatively easy to set up a ssh tunnel
or stunnel and push the connection through that.


Peter