[Techtalk] easy SMTP authentication with any MTA

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Thu Feb 27 20:17:25 EST 2003


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:14:44AM -0600 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Morgan Landry thought:
> Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> <snips many useful things>
> 
> A silly question:
>  Do I need to compile something like Cyrus-sasl to make the sasl stuff 
> work in postfix-2.04? Apparently sasl is in 2.x version of postfix, but 
> not in the 1.x versions, IIRC, but I'm not sure what that means.  The 
> documentation I've seen on postfix.org for SMTP authentication only 
> applies to the 1.x series. I'm all confused.

Alas, I've no idea.  I haven't used it myself but since I'd been poking
around in the postfix config recently, I was able to locate the sasl lines
fairly easily...

Conor
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