From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 29 20:50:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C9F106568D for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:50:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC818FC13 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.71]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id B7Kn1d0051YDfWL598qvZc; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:50:55 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by OMTA20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id B8xP1d0013S48mS3g8xPv8; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:57:23 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2BA251E301B; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:50:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:50:53 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091129205053.GA77530@icarus.home.lan> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091129194728.00007891@unknown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:50:55 -0000 On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:47:28PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:30:18 -0800 > Gary Kline 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... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |