From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2006 - 12:08:40 CDT

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:49:38PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:

> I hate to fix what ain't broke. SASL works just fine.
>
> Are there performance and security benefits to implementing Dovecot
> SASL support?
>

If you are using Dovecot as your IMAP server, fewer things to tinker
with, but using its auth engine for both IMAP and SMTP.

Note that not all mechanisms can be proxied in this manner. I doubt
that GSSAPI would work (not that Postfix really supports GSSAPI
anyway, there is not yet support in Postfix for SASL security
layers i.e. encryption via SASL rather than TLS, and GSSAPI usually
encrypts and authenticates).

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        Viktor.

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