* Marc Perkel <marc@???> [20040428 16:49]: wrote:
>
>
> Alan Thew wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:13 , Marc Perkel <marc@???> said:
> >
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Are you sure? We've run this for some time and it doesn't do that here...
> >
> >
> >
> 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.
Why don't you just let it use the passwd file (in any case?). You do
realize that your authentication would fail is the IMAP server died
for some reason. Exim might still be running.
Mine simply runs like
saslauthd -a pam -m /var/state/saslauthd
cheers
- wash
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