On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Steve Campbell campbell@cnpapers.com wrote:
The sendmail cf file was not copied, but most of the parms were duplicated in the sendmail.mc file and sendmail was rebuilt. No errors. Auth was never working properly since once I put dovecot on, saslauthd was scrambled. Unfortunately, I needed the pop and imap server before I found out auth was failing.
If you are changing things, why not use cyrus instead of dovecot?
If you're talking cyrus-sasl, then that's a consideration. If you're talking cyrus imap, I'd have to see what provides pop.
I'm starting to see where all of my confusion is coming from.
Cyrus and dovecot are alternative imap/pop servers with incompatible storage formats and program and configurations. Cyrus is probably more efficient with its own layout - dovecot uses more or less normal mbox or maildirs. Not sure how the saslauthd's relate - but it sounds like your sendmail is configured for cyrus-sasl but dovecot confuses it.
yum search cyrus shows a bunch of components.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com