I am running Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS (setup: The Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server (Dapper Drake)) POP3 authentication works just fine, but I am unable to send. Any advice?! Cheers Mar 17 10:35:06 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: connect from unknown[192.168.1.141] Mar 17 10:35:06 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[192.168.1.141] Mar 17 10:35:06 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: TLS connection established from unknown[192.168.1.141]: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits) Mar 17 10:35:08 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory Mar 17 10:35:08 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.141]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed Mar 17 10:35:11 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory Mar 17 10:35:11 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: warning: unknown[192.168.1.141]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed Mar 17 10:35:13 MyHost postfix/smtpd[15795]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.1.141]
What's the output of Code: ps aux|grep saslauthd ? What's in /etc/default/saslauthd and /etc/init.d/saslauthd?
i have had the same problem. please be sure, that the STARTING directory ( defined in /etc/default/saslauth) exists. in MY case i have to set the OPTIONS= and not (like you can read in the howto) PARAMS=... please have a look at this file and try OPTIONS= ATTENTION: i have debian, maybe it is different to yours!
/etc/default/saslauthd 'K ... I am think I am getting somewhere here: # This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically START=yes # You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use. # This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include # "shadow" or "sasldb", like this: # MECHANISMS="pam shadow" MECHANISMS="pam" I uncommented the line above and now ps aux|grep saslauthd reports: root 13601 0.0 0.1 6020 988 ? Ss 11:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam root 13602 0.0 0.1 6020 588 ? S 11:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam root 13603 0.0 0.1 6020 536 ? S 11:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam root 13604 0.0 0.1 6020 536 ? S 11:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam root 13605 0.0 0.1 6020 536 ? S 11:17 0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam root 19787 0.0 0.1 2880 796 pts/1 R+ 18:38 0:00 grep saslauthd ... but I am still getting the same error! What's next?
Take a look at http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06_p5 : Seems you left that step out.
Argh! Going through the postfix configuration steps in your tutorial, I did remember doing them before though. Everything checked out after I ran: telnet localhost 25 ehlo localhost I have no clue how I reverted back?! Thanks all! ... and by the way your tutorial is excellent! Cheers
Fixed! Sorry, I wasn't clear in my last post. The culprit was: /etc/default/saslauthd: # This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically START=yes PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r" # You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use. # This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include # "shadow" or "sasldb", like this: # MECHANISMS="pam shadow" MECHANISMS="pam" What I meant to say in my last post was that I did set this up before, because I do remember testing the config and I got: 250-STARTTLS and 250-AUTH So it's a bit of mystery to me what happened, but if this comes up again I will take notes and post a follow up. Thanks again! Cheers
