What I'm thinking is to access port 143 directly. Do an IMAP login and
if it succeeds then you disconect from imap and accept the email. This
way Exim doesn't have to be compatible with some other system. It just
gets it's OK from IMAP. It would eliminate the need for an SASL layer.
Jakob Hirsch wrote:
>Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>Maybe I'm missing something about why this won't work but it seems to me
>>like it would be a good feature.
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>I don't really see the benefit. You can use a common database for this
>in most installations. MySQL/xySQL, LDAP, plain text files etc., choose
>one you want. Since Exim supports SASL, you can use many more methods,
>that's what SALS is about - providing a single interface for authentication.
>Authentication over IMAP sounds rather clumsy and inefficient to me.
>Where does your IMAP server have its userdata? Exim can probably access
>it directly.
>There is even a patch to access your dovecot's auth socket directly, btw
>(don't know why Phil did not integrate it, maybe it's too special).
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