From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2006 - 01:26:52 CDT

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* James Brown <jlbrownbordo.com.au>:
> I have set up Postfix and it runs OK using telnet.
>
> I am now trying to setup SMTP Authentication. I'm running on a MacOS
> X 10.4.7 box. This machine looks like it has sasl2 installed (ie
> there a folder /usr/lib/sasl2 which contains lots of .so and .la
> files, but it looks like it does not have the binaries installed. Eg
> there is no saslauthd or saslpasswd2 on the system.
>
> But there is no mention of Cyrus. So Apple has installed sasl, but
> not Cyrus-Sasl?

Apple ships Mac OS X with a modified version of Cyrus SASL and a modified
version of Postfix. The Cyrus SASL version brings many non-default mechanisms
and auxprop-plugins specific to Apple applications and the Apple Postfix
version was patched to use the Apple Cyrus SASL implementation.

> Should I use DarwinPorts to install Cyrus-sasl?

Unless you 'really' know what you are doing on an Apple Mac OS X machine, you
are probably better of going with what is there. If you are ready to go the
hard way, take a look at the patches in order to understand what they change
so you can work with the system.

prick

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