On 8 Jun 2005 at 13:40, Tony Finch wrote about
"Re: [exim] Client Authentication":
| On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Fred Viles wrote:
| >
| > According to <http://www.iana.org/assignments/sasl-mechanisms>,
| > there's no SASL mechanism named "SASL". You seem to be using the
| > term SASL in some way unrelated to RFC-2222, so I don't understand
| > what you're trying to say about SMTP.
|
| Some people use SASL to refer to the Cyrus-SASL software, which is an
| implementation of a generic SASL layer plus a load of useful SASL
| mechanisms. Exim has its own SASL layer, but it can also use Cyrus-SASL in
| at least two different ways.
Yah. "Some people" includes Wietse, apparently. I looked at the
postfix web pile, and postfix does use the cyrus-sasl library to
implement SMTP AUTH, both client and server. The docs, config
syntax, and error messages consistently describe the feature as "SASL
Authentication", so that's where John got that from.
It is standard SMTP AUTH, not "a different form of authentication",
but I can see how you could get that idea from the postfix
implementation and docs.
I don't know what John's problem was (possibly he just didn't enable
plain text authentication), but according to the docs it can be made
to work.
- Fred
