SASL authentication with cyrus-imapd

[James B. Byrne]

If there is a better venue to ask this question then I would
appreciate being informed of where that is.

I am investigating how to authenticate smtp submission connections to
our postfix server from our cyrus-imap server.  In our case these two
services reside on separate hosts.

I have followed the postfix guide respecting configuring saslauthd to
use imap (-O rimap) on a remote host.  However, the postfix document
rather cryptically warns that such authentication is enclaire and that
an ssh tunnel between the smtp and imap hosts is advised.

My question is how is this secure tunnel done / configured?  Is there
any way to use saslauth to directly connect via imaps on port 993?


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