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Re: Fall back when dovecot SASL is unavailable?

From: Eero Volotinen (eero.volotineniki.fi)
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 10:34:36 CDT


>> Now if for whatever reason dovecot is not running, smtpd will also
>> refuse to work, complaining "fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms".
>
> Indeed!
>
>> I would much prefer it to fall back to "smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no" in
>> that case, so that mail for local recipients can still be received. Is
>> this possible?
>
> It's the one problem we're having here as well: When updating dovecot,
> postfix won't work due to that...

Yes, problem also exists when imap crashes or wrong startup order.

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Eero