On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:35:43AM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Appreciate it. Is there an overview of your IMAP/POP3 server?
> > Overview, tuturial, what dovecot does? newest features, etc?
>
> Well, there's http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailServerOverview and
> http://dovecot.org/talks/
>
> > The fellow who set up dovecoat origially has [ what I believe
> > to be] an unnecessary SASL service. I would like to avoid all
> > redundancies, save CPU, troubles, and so on. ...
>
> Your SMTP server might be authenticating using the SASL service.
Yes, but because much of this was new I simply followed my
friend's guidelines blindly. Here are what I did (cut-and-pasted)
without understand much:
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Configuring Mail Services
Now we will begin with configuring the Sendmail SMTP server,
with SMTP-AUTH. When we compile Sendmail, we want it to
recognize that we will use SASL2 for smtp authentication. So,
we need to add these items to the file /etc/make.conf:
SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2
SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2
Now, compile sasl2 and sasl2-saslauthd (in 1 operation):
# cd /usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd; make install
clean
Check the contents of /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf, make
sure it says: pwcheck_method: saslauthd
# cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
Configure saslauthd to load at boot. Add this to the end of
/etc/rc.conf:
saslauthd_enable="YES"
Start saslauthd
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd start
Now its time to recompile sendmail with SASL2 support.
# cd /usr/src/lib/libsm; make clean; make obj; make depend;
make
# cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil; make clean; make obj; make
depend; make
# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail; make clean; make obj; make
depend; make; make install
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This is from Jon Horne's own wiki pages,
http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org/index.php/Deploying_a_FreeBSD_6.2_Server
from 2007. Am I right that I no longer need the "cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd"
daemon and can get rid of it? I plan to use Jon's wiki page
and update using dovecot alone for my own how-to on building a
mail server. --It is one of three howto writeups I am working
on. In short, I want especially mail to be lean and *correct*.
Mostly correct!
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