Re: bin/42638 (postfix should compiled with cyrus sasl to suppport SMTP authentication as a client)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/42638; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
tron%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        frank%fthieme.net@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/42638 (postfix should compiled with cyrus sasl to suppport
        SMTP authentication as a client)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:14:38 +0000

 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:36:17PM +0000, tron%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
  > State-Changed-By: tron%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > State-Changed-When: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:36:15 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > I'm sorry but Postfix cannot be compiled with Cyrus SASL support because
  > Cyrus SASL is not included in the base-system.
  > 
  > Postfix also doesn't support using Dovecot in SMTP client mode which is
  > why that option isn't available either.
  > 
  > The only possible option (without Cyrus SASL in the base system) is
  > support for using Dovecot in SMTP server mode which gets compiled in.
 
 ...or one can use postfix from pkgsrc.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost