On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Richard P. Welty wrote:
> mildly OT, but i'm sure someone here has an answer.
>
> i'm trying to set up the dovecot authenticator
> with exim. exim version is 4.66, dovecot is 1.0.rc27
>
> dovecot is insisting on putting the authentication
> process in /var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.<pid>,
> the presence of the pid making it hard to write the
> exim configuration. the dovecot documentation of the
> config file is hard to follow, and it appears that 1.0.rc27
> may not follow it precisely anyway.
>
> anyone have any experience or suggestions for this?
No experience, but the very small "proof of concept" test that I run has
this authenticator:
dovecot:
driver = dovecot
public_name = PLAIN
server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
server_set_id = $auth1
Note: auth-client, not auth-worker.
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