Niels Dettenbach via Info wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 25. Juni 2023, 13:19:05 CEST schrieb PFiver via Info:
>> I would like to use cyrus-imap as a relaying and forwarding SMTP MTA, IMAP
>> mail and Cal/Card*DAV server for personal use. It will run in a small VM
>> that serves no more than 10 user.
> Just a side note (simplified):
>
> cyrus-imapd is not a SMTP MTA. For this purpose, soem SMTP MTA solution like
> exim, postfix, sendmail etc. is typically used "together" with cyrus-imapd.
> cyrus speak lmtp ("local" mail transfer) with them to get fed with incoming
> emails.
>
> For User authentication in Cyrus, i would expect to use
> Cyrus -> PAM -.> LDAP or ponetially
> Cyrus -> SASL -> GSSAPI -> LDAP
Unless your KDC is using OpenLDAP as its backend, typically SASL -> GSSAPI doesn't involve LDAP at all.
A more typical example would be using SASL/DIGEST-MD5 or SASL/SCRAM etc...
> as a typical solution (but never did it byself yet).
>
> look at i.e.:
> https://www.cyrusimap.org/sasl/sasl/faqs/openldap-sasl-gssapi.html
>
>
> hth,
>
>
> niels.
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