Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:50:53 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... Message-ID: <20091129205053.GA77530@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20091129194728.00007891@unknown> References: <1259283983.92302.23.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> <20091127055757.GA75657@thought.org> <20091127083304.GA8618@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20091129193018.GA87743@thought.org> <20091129194728.00007891@unknown>
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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:47:28PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800
> Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>
> > { One far, far OT question here: who can explain what dovecot
> > is/does? why it even exists? I'm familiar with MTA's, like
> > sendmail; likewise with MUA's, like evo, kmail, and mutt.
> > It's time to learn another level of complexity, evidently....}
>
> Dovecot is an IMAP/POP3 server - sendmail lets you send mail, dovecot
> lets you fetch it from a remote server.
There is one thing Dovecot offers (purely as a nicety; it has no
relation to the IMAP/POP3 functionality of the daemon per se) which is
unlike other IMAP/POP3 daemon -- its own SASL implementation. This
allows for MTAs like Postfix and Exim to use the SASL feature of Dovecot
to do user/pass authentication:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Sasl
I consider this a major plus, given that I avoid Cyrus software like the
plague.
If you maintain a server which runs both a public-facing MTA which
permits users to send mail through it (via SMTP AUTH) and an IMAP/POP3
daemon, then this feature of Dovecot is a blessing. Getting it to work
with Postfix is incredibly simple -- 4 lines in main.cf, and a single
line in master.cf; no need to rebuild all your software to link to a
library, blah blah...
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