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Re: SASL with postfix and Cyrus

From: Andreas Winkelmann (mlawinkelmann.de)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2007 - 13:13:31 CDT


On Tuesday 03 April 2007 16:07, Bernhard D Rohrer wrote:

> I am trying to run cyrus and postfix with SASL. so far I have managed to
> connect one or the other to saslauthd, but never both at the same time.
> This is due ro postfix's chroot jail. I have not found a way to link
> (soft or hard) the two directories and i have not found a way to tell
> cyrus to use a different directory for the connecting socket. The
> remaining option appears to be to release postfix from it's CHROOT jail
> which i would prefer to avoid.
>
> anybody know of a different way?

Hmm, because Postfix is bound to /var/spool/postfix/.. you have to configure
Cyrus-IMAP to use a diffrent Path. Put something like:

sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/spool/postfix/.../mux

in your imapd.conf and make sure, Cyrus-IMAP can reach/access the
Directory/Socket.

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        Andreas