On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 10:42:06AM -0700, Fred Viles wrote: > On 1 Aug 2005 at 10:23, Marc Perkel wrote about > "Re: [exim] Why doesn't Exim authent": > | What I'm thinking is to access port 143 directly. Do an IMAP login and > | if it succeeds then you disconect from imap and accept the email. > FYI, it wouldn't work with CRAM-MD5 or other one-way-hash SASL > mechanisms. The password would not be available for exim to pass to > the IMAP server.
There's no reason not to make Exim MITM properly in this situation. The actual reason it's a Bad And Wrong idea is that it's much cheaper to do the authentication steps than to set up a full IMAP login (which will, by some necessity involve much more than just a bit of authentication). The actual answer to the question in the subject of this thread, however, is "because noone has yet needed to write it". The Cyrus-SASL support only exists because I found myself needing it to be able to switch over from a Postfix install to an Exim install in as transparent a way as possible. There were things I couldn't do from within exim or with just the saslauth daemon. Cheers MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/ (Please use this address to reply) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
