Re: [Exim] saslauthd - I love it!

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: exim-users
New-Topics: Re: [Exim] saslauthd with IMAP - I love it!
Subject: Re: [Exim] saslauthd - I love it!

Alan Thew wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:13 , Marc Perkel <marc@???> said:
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>>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. Thus - anyone who has an IMAP login will have the same
>>user and password for SMTP AUTH login.
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>Are you sure? We've run this for some time and it doesn't do that here...
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Well - I'm doing it. saslauthd -a rimap -O localhost
In this mode it does an IMAP test to see if it can connect with that
user/password and returns the result.