Hi,
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:08:26PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Matthew Byng-Maddick <exim@???> writes:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:15:59PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> Without having too much clue about SASL, I understand the reporter
> >> that a SASL client is able to specify which mechanisms to use, and
> >> exim doesn't specify that list, meaning that it uses "all", which
> >> can clutter up the logs of the SASL server.
> >
> > The cyrus_sasl authenticator acts as a SASL server only. It has no
> > way to specify where it gets the passwords from. On startup, it
> > queries the SASL server to find all available mechanisms, as it
> > won't advertise a mechanism that it doesn't know how to deal with.
>
> Yes. All the patch changes is that it limits the testing of the
> available mechs to the ones actually used in the exim configuration.
May I remind? I would like to apply Jürgen's patch to Debian's exim4
sources, and would really appreciate some comments from the exim
authors before doing so.
Greetings
Marc
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