[Dovecot] AUTH patch for Postfix 2.3?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jun 6 01:15:28 EEST 2005


On 3.6.2005, at 20:10, /dev/rob0 wrote:

> The 2.2.1 patch works fine on Postfix 2.2.3 but not on the 2.3 
> snapshots. Any plans to update it for 2.3?

Shouldn't be too difficult, but I don't think there's much point since 
it probably won't work in next 2.3 snapshot anymore..

> On a similar subject, Timo, are you going to try again to get it 
> accepted by Wietse? If so I'd try to help out with the documentation 
> part. I'm just not sure he'll accept it anyway, what with Dovecot auth 
> only being used by Dovecot ...

His suggestion was to instead implement SASL interface via struct like 
it's done for Postfix's dictionaries. Not a bad idea but I don't really 
see how it really helps, as Postfix itself doesn't support dynamically 
loadable modules. Debian adds that as an external patch. So even if I 
did that change (I think I did it almost completely) Postfix would 
still require patching to work with Dovecot, just a bit less.

Maybe I should talk to him more to see if he has some more plans which 
wouldn't require patching. Some day, when I again get inspired to 
update that code. :)
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