Fred Viles wrote:
>On 2 Aug 2005 at 12:49, Marc Perkel wrote about
> "Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authent":
>
>|...
>| In addition I would like to provide SMTP services to these remote users
>| by using Dovecot to proxy to these remote servers for authentication.
>
>These are your paying customers, right? What advantage do you see to
>this, as opposed to them authenticating with the account credentials
>they must already have on your system?
>
>
They don't have any credentials on my system.
>| I
>| will be using plain text passwords over SSL to do this - so it is
>| secure. But - there's no backend database that Exim can query.
>
>You and your users may not care, but ISTM likely they will be
>violating their TOS with the thier other service by disclosing thier
>account names and passwords to you.
>
>
Their other service is the one who is contracting this service from me.
They are asking for this.
>| I am currently using SASL to talk to IMAP for exim. It works. I'm just
>| suggesting that I'd like to eliminate the middleware and let Exim do
>| what SASL is doing with the rimap option.
>
>So go ahead and do it. Nobody is stopping you, you even got some
>pointers where to start. That's the beauty of open source software.
>
>- Fred
>
>
>
So why are you against this? What business is it of your's? Why do you
not want me to have features I need? This is between me and the Exim
developers. I'm making a suggestion for an enhancement. Why are you
inserting yourself into the process?
