From: Benjamin Donnachie (benjaminpy-soft.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2007 - 07:03:34 CDT

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M. Fioretti wrote:
> Whell, I have a VPS where Postfix is the SMTP server and I want it to
> authenticate users (including me from home) which want to relay email
> through it. So the only issue on the VPS is if the postfix version
> isn't recent enough.

Should be okay with Dovecot-SASL - what output do you get from postconf -a ?

> What about my home box? I run postfix here too, with
> relayhost=my.remote.vps
> how should I configure this local postfix to authenticate?

See http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl

> More exactly: does it matter to the _local_ postfix if the one on the VPS
> uses dovecot for authentication? If I understand correctly, it
> shouldn't, but I'd appreciate a confirmation that this is the case and
> that I'm not missing something.

I've only used Cyrus-SASL, as I use Cyrus-IMAP, but it shouldn't matter.

Ben

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