From 7d2f2d360f5a8ac6e0055074db813c3c3cfbeeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Harris Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:29:31 +0000 Subject: Dovecot auth: inet socket. Bug 2280 --- doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | 3 +++ doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index e21446533..8ae95a7fb 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ Version 4.94 7. Named-list definitions can now be prefixed "hide" so that "-bP" commands do not output the content. Previously this could only be done on options. + 8. As an exerimental feature, the dovecot authenticatino driver supports inet + sockets. Previously it was unix-domain sockets only. + Version 4.93 ------------ diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 2569ad3af..6e47b95c2 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -808,6 +808,36 @@ Issues: hosts_require_ocsp will fail + +Dovecot authenticator via inet socket +------------------------------------ +If Dovecot is configured similar to :- + +service auth { +... +#SASL + inet_listener { + name = exim + port = 12345 + ssl = yes + } +... +} + +then an Exim authenticator can be configured :- + + dovecot-plain: + driver = dovecot + public_name = PLAIN + server_socket = dovecot_server_name 12345 + server_tls = true + server_set_id = $auth1 + +If the server_socket does not start with a / it is taken as a hostname (or IP); +and a whitespace-separated port number must be given. + + + -------------------------------------------------------------- End of file -------------------------------------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3