I followed the mentioned howto... i can receive pop email with thunderbird, but when i try to send an email it fails... in mail.log: Code: Jul 5 22:44:11 empego postfix/smtpd[5575]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jul 5 22:44:11 empego postfix/smtpd[5575]: warning: p548AC7D5.dip.t-dialin.net[84.138.199.213]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure Jul 5 22:44:12 empego postfix/smtpd[5575]: warning: p548AC7D5.dip.t-dialin.net[84.138.199.213]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure in auth.log: Code: Jul 5 22:44:12 empego saslauthd[5568]: pam_mysql - required option "db" is not set Jul 5 22:44:12 empego saslauthd[5568]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: Error in service module Jul 5 22:44:12 empego saslauthd[5568]: do_auth : auth failure: [[email protected]] [service=smtp] [realm=yyy.zzz] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error] looks like /etc/pam.d/smtp (a symlink to /etc/pam.d/imap) is not read... /etc/pam.d/smtp: Code: auth required pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=secret host=127.0.0.1 db=mail table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 verbose=1 account sufficient pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=secret host=127.0.0.1 db=mail table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 verbose=1 Code: /etc/potix/sasl/smtp.conf: pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login allow_plaintext: true auxprop_plugin: mysql sql_hostnames: 127.0.0.1 sql_user: mail_admin sql_passwd: secret sql_database: mail sql_select: SELECT password FROM users where email = '%u' Code: empego:/etc# ps aux | grep saslauthd root 5566 0.0 0.1 30308 1152 ? Ss 22:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 5567 0.0 0.1 30308 1468 ? S 22:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 5568 0.0 0.1 30308 1468 ? S 22:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 5569 0.0 0.0 30308 672 ? S 22:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 root 5574 0.0 0.0 30308 484 ? S 22:43 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r -n 5 i read some threads and tried a lot, but nothing helped... any idea what i can do!?
Output of ls -l /etc/pam.d: Code: empego:~# ls -l /etc/pam.d total 96 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 2006-03-18 20:13 atd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384 2006-10-22 08:38 chfn -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 581 2006-10-22 08:38 chsh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 392 2006-07-04 21:05 common-account -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 436 2006-07-04 21:05 common-auth -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1097 2006-07-04 21:05 common-password -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 372 2006-07-04 21:05 common-session -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289 2006-10-13 01:01 cron -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 2006-12-18 18:38 dovecot -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148 2006-06-11 19:46 esmtp -rw------- 1 root root 323 2007-07-05 19:36 imap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486 2007-02-13 09:39 imap.dpkg-dist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 486 2007-02-13 09:39 lmtp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2843 2006-10-22 08:38 login -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 520 2006-07-04 21:05 other -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 2006-07-04 21:05 passwd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-03-18 16:20 pop -> /etc/pam.d/imap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148 2006-05-31 17:37 pop3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 485 2007-02-13 09:39 pop.dpkg-new -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 2006-07-04 21:05 ppp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 2006-07-04 21:05 proftpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-03-18 16:20 sieve -> /etc/pam.d/imap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 498 2007-02-13 09:39 sieve.dpkg-new lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2007-03-18 16:20 smtp -> /etc/pam.d/imap -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1272 2006-11-15 02:53 ssh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2305 2006-07-14 14:24 su -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 113 2006-05-31 17:37 webmail content of: /etc/pam.conf: Code: empego:~# cat /etc/pam.conf # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------# # /etc/pam.conf # # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------# # # NOTE # ---- # # NOTE: Most program use a file under the /etc/pam.d/ directory to setup their # PAM service modules. This file is used only if that directory does not exist. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Format: # serv. module ctrl module [path] ...[args..] # # name type flag # Thanks in advance for your help!!! /thomas
ok... the problem is solved... my stupid error was to use a '#' character in my mail_admin password, which works fine for the receiving part... but in /etc/pam.d/smtp: Code: auth required pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=my#password host=127.0.0.1 db=mail table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 account sufficient pam_mysql.so user=mail_admin passwd=my#password host=127.0.0.1 db=mail table=users usercolumn=email passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 everything behind the '#' was ignored... again... thank you for your help! regards, thomas
I'm glad you posted the solution, because i'm having likewise problems and a am too using a password containing the number sign # My mail.log and auth.log entries have the same errors as yours, and am about to fix it by changing the password in all the files and database. I'm wondering though, would having the password wrapped in single quotes negate the special characters like in most programming language's? p.s. Sorry to bring up an old thread, but it is relevant to my problem. My install of the mail server with postfix dates from half a year back, and WAS running perfect, but i lately changed the password and then the problems started.
# OMG ) , i can't believe i've spent more than an hour @3AM troubleshooting this setup, only to find out that i used a # sign in the password. This forum is great!
