Why? SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer
I think somewhere in the thread you mentioned that you have setup SASL
to auth against another IMAP server? That seems a little backwards,
but it's your baby.
If anything, it seems logical to remove support for everything save
SASL and really simplify things.
What will you do for clients who don't want to provide you w/ plain
text passwords in the first place?
--- Marc Perkel <marc@???> 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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