i know that there are ways to get exim to authenticate against
courier for smtp, and to get courier to authenticate against exim
you could look into how people accomplish that
On Jul 31, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something about why this won't work but it seems
> to me like it would be a good feature.
>
> I am currently using Cyrus SASL to do Exim SMTP athentication. It's
> configured to do an IMAP call so anyone who has an IMAP account can
> use their IMAP login name and password to send email through Exim.
>
> So - why use SASL? Why not have Exim talk directly to the IMAP port
> and attempt to authenticate? If is succeeds then it lets the user
> send email. Seems simple enough - so why wouldn't this be as easy
> as I think it is?
>
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