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Postfix Documentation
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Building Postfix with Dovecot SASL support

Support for the Dovecot version 1 SASL protocol is available in Postfix 2.3 and later. At the time of writing, only server-side SASL support is available, so you can't use it to authenticate to your network provider's server. Dovecot uses its own daemon process for authentication. This keeps the Postfix build process simple, because there is no need to link extra libraries into Postfix.

To generate the necessary Makefiles, execute the following in the Postfix top-level directory:

% make makefiles CCARGS='-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DDEF_SERVER_SASL_TYPE=\"dovecot\"'

After this, proceed with "make" as described in the INSTALL document.

Notes:

  • The "-DDEF_SERVER_SASL_TYPE" stuff is not necessary; it just makes Postfix configuration a little more convenient because you don't have to specify the SASL plug-in type in the Postfix main.cf file.

  • If you also want support for LDAP or TLS, you will have to merge their CCARGS and AUXLIBS into the above command line.

Postfix Documentation
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