Jakob Hirsch wrote: > Quoting W B Hacker: > > >>> server_setid = $auth1 >> >>We would need (at least) two separate variables for the challenge-response >>process. >> >>Our passwords and UID's do not resemble <user>@<domain> > > > Fine, that would make a lousy password anyway :)
World seems to be full of folks using the email address as a UID. > > >>- and are neither the same, nor even the same *format*, for IMAP/POP, smtp, >>and >>Webmail. > > > Uh? The strangeness of your setup is well known (I shudderly remember > the SSL-on-port-587 thing...), but it keeps beating itself... Nah, that one pays-off bigtime on faster connections alone. > I cannot think of single reason why somebody would do that (apart from > keeping the IT support people busy and making oneself indispensable, but > I'd would never think something like that about you, of course :) > Nothing to it, field-support-wise. It lets non-computer-literate staff issue new, revoke old UID's and passwords, and/or keep a 'role' account active and transfer it intact when staff are reassigned, leave, join... all w/o mailadmin's intervention. Much like locally changing access numbers for a combination lock instead of calling a locksmith in to pull tumblers, re-key the door, and cut new keys. > An (expanded) option for sending arbitrary user-ids could be added, but > as I said, why bother... > Agreed. Those NOT using the email address as a UID probably aren't using SASL either. And I don't mean our contrarian way, but in general. > I tested the old patch a while ago and it worked fine, but I didn't want > to make exim depend too much on dovecot, as it was in a beta state and > the auth daemon could not be run as a separate process (AFAIR), which > should be done IMO if used by multiple programms. > > ? Our Dovecot has run the auth process separately for a very long time. OTOH, we have always used it with PostgeSQL, so... Bill -- ## 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/
