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Editing: HowTo.EximAndDovecotSASL.txt
Exim and Dovecot SASL ===================== Exim v4.64+ users can use Dovecot SASL instead of Cyrus SASL for authenticating SMTP clients. conf.d/10-master.conf --------------------- ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- service auth { ... #SASL unix_listener auth-client { mode = 0660 user = mail } ... } ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- conf.d/10-auth.conf ------------------- ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- auth_mechanisms = plain login ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- exim.conf --------- Create authenticators for Dovecot: ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- dovecot_login: driver = dovecot public_name = LOGIN server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client # setting server_set_id might break several headers in mails sent by authenticated smtp. So be careful. server_set_id = $auth1 dovecot_plain: driver = dovecot public_name = PLAIN server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client server_set_id = $auth1 ---%<------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are having problems with this not working ensure that you are using version 4.72 or greater of exim. Previous versions of exim have trouble with the version of the protocol used in Dovecot 2 (This file was created from the wiki on 2019-06-19 12:42)
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