On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:14:56AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 2:03 AM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
>
> >Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> >>Is there any reasonably easy way to get SMTP AUTH functioning with
> >>sendmail and dovecot?
> >
> >i asked about this a few weeks back and i think the answer is no. this
> >means you have to maintain 2 pw DBs, one for dovecot, one for
> >cyrus-SASL. i would like to be wrong here since it would make life
> >easier for me.
>
> That was the primary reason for using postfix with dovecot. Years
> back, I tried to get both sendmail and postfix working with SMTP AUTH
> and Cyrus as I recall. It was a mess. The super-easy integration of
> postfix and dovecot for SMTP AUTH is a welcome change.
I think the main trick is in writing scripts that generate all databases
from a single main file. This is fairly easy using perl, awk, ....
Of course, this becomes a hundred times more difficult the moment user
administration is not done centrally.
Joachim
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