M. J. [Mike] OBrien wrote: > Having saslauthd ask the DBMail IMAP daemon to fetch the user data from the > MySQL server is cute but it strikes me as adding a significant extra step > and CPU utilization plus when busy, spawned children and processes.... etc. > when sasl can just get the data directly from the RDBMS.
Agreed. But using the rimap mechanism in sasl is a very simple solution though which provides a no-hassle smtp-auth solution. For smaller installations that is most likely not a problem. Your situation is indeed different. > > Do you have any experience to compare imap vs mysql direct authentication > for sasl on DBMail? I like the idea but... maybe I should test that out a > bit and do a wiki. What do you put into /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf ? mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN ANONYMOUS pwcheck_method: saslauthd > > BTW svn trunk rocks -- very stable with recent changes. Congrats. Good to hear. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
