cyrus imap without sasl

[Ken Murchison]

sandra wrote:
> 
> Hi people,
> 
>     We have a question about athentication with cyrus+sasl.
>     Here we had configured our cyrus installation to use SASL + PAM to
> authenticate users in a mysql database. We have read that there is
> a way to use IMAP LOGIN instead to authenticate users via SASL PLAIN .
> If it is
> possible, how could I do it?
>     Because we think that there is no need to use SASL library in the
> middle of the way to authenticate via PAM+mysql. Isnt it a better
> performance issue? Or we are completely wrong?

You can't compile/configure Cyrus 2.x without SASL.  Cyrus uses SASL for
all plaintext lookups (IMAP LOGIN, POP3 USER/PASS, AUTH=LOGIN,
AUTH=PLAIN)

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