Re: [Exim] Second stab at supporting Cyrus SASL's saslauthd

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Alexander Sabourenkov
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Second stab at supporting Cyrus SASL's saslauthd
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Alexander Sabourenkov wrote:

> Hmm. I'm more concerned about the case when, say, realm has to be hardcoded
> into configuration and to have a curly brace(s) in itself.


If you have a hard-coded curly brace in an expanded string, you can
escape it with \ just like any other character that the expander treats
specially.

$ exim -be
> ${if eq {\{}{\}}{yes}{no}}

no

> Problem is, while for two fields with more-or-less clear semantics this is
> acceptable, four fields of saslauthd, with two latter still remaining a
> mystery, I'm afraid colon-separation is not the right thing.


Oh, I entirely agree.

> I think it's better to deprecate pwcheck condition itself. In Cyrus SASL
> pwcheck has been deprecated long long ago in favor of saslauthd.


Ah. I didn't know that. Makes sense.


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