Hi evr'1 I did a bad thing I wasn't paying attention while upgrading my debian-Server. My installation includes the mailserver-solution from falko (Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV)). After upgraded my system, I cannot send mails (smtp) anymore. The following errors while trying to authenticate (mail.log): Code: Dec 1 12:14:25 localhost postfix/smtpd[14084]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Dec 1 12:14:25 localhost postfix/smtpd[14084]: warning: localhost[127.0.0.1]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure Dec 1 12:14:26 localhost postfix/smtpd[14084]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied After cancelling the SMTP-Auth in the mail client: Code: Dec 1 12:14:26 localhost postfix/smtpd[14084]: warning: localhost[127.0.0.1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic failure Dec 1 12:14:29 localhost postfix/smtpd[14084]: lost connection after AUTH from localhost[127.0.0.1] Dec 1 12:14:29 localhost postfix/smtpd[14084]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] I am stuck here. I checked every conf-file but did not find anything. Starting the daemons (postfix, amavisd-new etc.) is no problem, and as I mentioned reveiving mails works just fine. Can someone 'light me up'? OR What would I have to do to return to the 'old' setting (before upgrading)? Thanks in advance for any help! QT
You shouldn't have updated Postfix because you've lost the quota patch now. I suggest you configure yor system again following the tutorial.
That's definitely not an option! It was a permission problem on the sasl socket directory, after all! Everything works fine again. The 'quota'-issue is not a big loss in my case. Anyway, thanks for the input.
What changes... qtx: Care to elaborate on what fixes you applied to get it working? What permission changes did you make please? I'm in the same situation...
Great! Worked. Thanks mate. Does anyone know of any links to explain more about the full install of SASL authentication at all? Something readable?
Ok. You should now open /etc/init.d/saslauthd. There's a chmod line somewhere near the beginning. Comment it out because otherwise the script will change the permissions of /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd everytime you restart saslauthd.
