Aaaah... that is simple. It all comes back... the process of building
SASL2 with MySQL has quirks to drive a person nuts first time round!
rimap is nice workaround :o)
Paul J Stevens wrote:
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.
