Author: Marc Perkel Date: To: 'Exim-users' Subject: Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authenticate against IMAP directly?
Jakob Hirsch wrote:
>Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
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>>If you really insist on doing something like that, you should convince
>>the Dovecot development team to do what Courier did -- and split their
>>authentication services into a separate project that the IMAP server access
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>actually, Timo is about to do that. Right now, dovecot provides a socket
>for authentication and there's a patch for Exim to use it.
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> That's interesting - but why use a socket when you can talk directly to
the IMAP port to do the same thing? That way it's universal and requires
no extra code.
