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Re: [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: postfix, dovecot auth and rip/lip]

From: Alex (subscriberviliar.net.ru)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 17:58:42 CDT


Wietse Venema wrote:
>> Good q. Yes, I think it useful. Just try to look on it not from side
>> only smtp server, but from side of integration smtp/imap/pop3 server.
>> For this example, we can have one storage, with allow/deny there access
>> to smtp/imap/pop3 services for each user. On the level of mail server.
>> Without have to store it in different places for diff services. Probably
>> it can be useful in other way, like you said.
>>
>
> There is no reason why this can't be implemented, but I want to
> avoid chaos in Postfix. So I don't want to keep adding more and
> more ad-hoc parameters to the Postfix-to-SASL library interface.
>
> This interface is also used by Cyrus SASL and may be used for other
> non-Cyrus implementations later. Changes to this API should be
> carefully designed.
>
> Wietse
>
>
I understand. It's have to wait unless it can really be necessary for
more users and could be part of 'official' API.
I wrote about it as "for not near future" wish. As for 'some day'.