Chasquid and Dovecot SASL

chasquid users can use Dovecot SASL instead of Cyrus SASL for authenticating SMTP clients.

This is supported from version 0.04 and later, and uses the PLAIN mechanism only.

Configuration Example

dovecot.conf

auth_mechanisms = plain login

service auth {
  ...
  # If chasquid is running under a different user, adjust the 'user ='
  # lines accordingly.
  unix_listener auth-chasquid-userdb {
    mode = 0660
    user = chasquid
  }

  unix_listener auth-chasquid-client {
    mode = 0660
    user = chasquid
  }
  ...
}

/etc/chasquid/chasquid.conf

dovecot_auth: true

That should be it, because chasquid will "autodetect" the full path to the Dovecot sockets, by looking in the usual places (tested in Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS).

If chasquid can't find them, the paths can be set with the dovecot_userdb_path and dovecot_client_path options (see the chasquid configuration manual page for details).

Additional Information

• chasquid's Dovecot integration documentation
• chasquid's How-to
• chasquid's Dovecot library source code