cyrus imap without sasl

[sandra]

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?

   Thanks a lot.


SAndra -
Computing Center - Unicamp