Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP direct…

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Author: Jonathan Vanasco
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To: Graeme Fowler
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?

On Aug 2, 2005, at 10:52 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> 1. You're using Dovecot for IMAP. It authenticates against something -
> what? How have you got it configured?


i ODDLY just found this while looking through the wiki
    http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/AuthenticatedSmtpUsingDovecot


Apparently, someone wrote a patch to make a driver for exim to
authenticate against Dovecot's own auth system

i STILL think that you should choose a dovecot backend that exim can
equally access without issue, but it looks like someone did write
something