Author: jonathan vanasco Date: To: exim-users @ exim. org Subject: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?
I'm going to agree with that.
Looking on the site, i can't see any reason why you wouldn't either
try to read the datasource that dovecot is storing info in or -- do
something really crazy -- store the data in something that both exim
and dovecot can access
On Aug 1, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Fred Viles wrote:
> It's not authentication specific. exim can do lsearch, cdb, dbm,
> ldap, sql, etc. to look up data for any purpose you need, including
> looking up valid usernames and passwords. Dovecot supports many of
> these same lookup types.
>
> The question was simply this: in what type of database is Dovecot
> keeping the username/password data it uses to authenticate, and does
> exim not already have the ability to access that database directly?
>
> If it does, you do not need the feature you are asking for to
> accomplish what you want to do (eliminate cyrus-sasl).
