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.
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