* Marc Perkel <marc@???> [20040428 07:16]: wrote:
> I just came across saslauthd and the Exim hook into it and I love it.
> What it does is it does smtp authentication against IMAP by trying to
> log into IMAP.
I use saslauthd but it doesn't even know whether I run an IMAP or POP3
service, but it works. So I assume you are doing something more
complicated than what the saslauthd does by default.
> Thus - anyone who has an IMAP login will have the same
> user and password for SMTP AUTH login.
Not exactly true but doable. Why even introduce another point of
failure? So when your IMAP server is down, ASMTP doesn't work, correct??
> I'm just posting this here for anyone else like me who didn't know you
> could do this. The how to is in the Exim docs.
Informative but also quite misleading, I must say.
cheers
- wash
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