Le 28/12/2010 15:25, Jerry a écrit : > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:45:16 +0100 > Jeroen Geilman <jer...@adaptr.nl> articulated: > >> On 12/28/10 2:41 PM, mouss wrote: >>> >>> your postfix has support for AUTH. If you also have dovecot, then >>> it's easier to use dovecot-auth. otherwise, use cyrus sasl. >> >> If he doesn't have dovecot, it is still easier than cyrus :) > > I have never had a problem with cyrus-sasl configuration and usage. I > am presently using cyrus-sasl with mysql and it works flawlessly. I have > had problems in the past with Dovecot and authentication when Dovecot > was updated. I honestly don't remember the last time that I had to > update cyrus though. In any case, I prefer to keep things isolated in a > situation like this. It makes debugging easier, or at least for me it > does. >
on the other side, with cyrus-sasl, you are linking complex code with postfix. with dovecot, only a small portion to implemented dovecot-auth protocol is included. so from a security and isolation viewpoint, dovecot-auth seems better to me. (my experience with cyrus sasl dates back to a long time. at the time, debugging was a nightmare. the location of smtpd.conf was hardcoded, and it was to be put with cyrus libraries, which was ugly. some distros used to change this but that made finding it a first barrier to getting things working. things have changed since then though). > As a side note, there appears to be a problem on FreeBSD with the > recent update of MySQL-5.5.8 and Postfix/Dovecot. I cannot confirm this > since I have not updated to that version of MySQL as of yet myself. > nor did I, so I can't tell. I hope to "upgrade" to postgres instead;-p
