SASL 1 + SASL 2 + sendmail + cyrus21

Marcus Schopen marcus.schopen at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue Jan 28 12:35:44 EST 2003


Hi Ken,

Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
> Marcus Schopen wrote:
>>I installed Henrique's ( http://people.debian.org/~hmh/ ) Debian woody
>>backport for cyrus21.
>>
>>Problem is that Debain's sendmail is build with SASL 1 and cyrus21 comes
>>with SASL 2. Now I have two different user databases. SASL 1 is used for
>>sendmail's SMTP_AUTH, SASL 2 is used for cyrus21 authentification. Both
>>SASL versions are working fine, but now I have to manage to differnet
>>databases.
>>
>>Is there a way to authenticate sendmail and cyrus21 against the same
>>user-database?
> 
> 
> I ported Sendmail to use SASLv2 back around 8.12.4.  Its an undocumented
> FFR and won't be officially supported until 8.13, but several people are
> using it, including me.  You'll have to compile it yourself using a
> config such as:
> 
> APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DSASL=2')
> APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-lsasl2')


Hmmm, if I build sendmail myself, I have to leave Debain's package 
manager. That's what I wanted to avoid.

What about using something else but sasl for SMTP_AUTH and cyrus21 
authentification?

:-))
Marcus


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