Re: [bug-mailutils] Re: [PATCH] Support for SASL authentication in imap4d

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hello Simon,

> > Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> I updated it again, and it seems to still work for GNU SASL 0.0.4.
> Was any problems with the patch encountered?  

Oops, sorry, I seem to have missed the quoted letter. No, there were
no special problems with the patch, however I do have several questions:

1) What was the reason for removing openlog() call from
imap4d/login.c? It is there (as well as in pop3d) because
many pam modules call openlog(..., LOG_AUTH), thus disturbing
the opened syslog channel when pam authentication is used.

2) Is it so necessary to use pkg-config in order to detect the
presence of libgsasl? 

3) The patch distributes the sasl-specific portions of code among
several sources. As you rightly pointed out, the whole sasl
framework should be implemented within as an opaque module
within libmuauth library.

I have almost finished (3), however I believe we should wait until
TLS support for imap4d is added (Wojciech is going to commit it
in a matter of days) in order to get everything integrated properly.

Thank you.

Sergey