Hello all, nice forum. I discovered it browsing for solutions to my postfix problem... I followed the "perfect debian install" how to instructions and got a bit further but still no luck... As my provider continually gets on the blocklists i decidede to put up an authenticated SMTP on the webserver i normally use which already had Postfix for some processes running on it (nagios - cacti and stuff like that) i installed the various packages, configured sasldb2 in the postfix chroot... added a test user but i can't get it to authenticate.... i'm using to get the string to pass to the server via AUTH PLAIN... an extract from the logs: anybody an idea what i'm missing? Thank you in advance, Luca
The perfect setup howto configures sasl with system user accounts, not with the sasl userdb. Just add a system user and you will be able to authenticate with SMTP.
Till, thank you for your answer. I had the mechanism set to sasldb. Just for being sure i brought it back to pam and tested autenticating as a system user but still i get authentication failed. am i using the correc way to get the encoded string to check if auth is working? I am quit lost. Ciao, Luca PS: Addition: looking on similar threads i found a refernce to testsaslauthd and got: testsaslauthd -u test -p testpass -f /var/spool/postfix/etc/sasldb2 connect() : Connection refused 0 any new idea?
as it looks like i'm confiusing things. new test... testsaslauthd -u test -p testpass -f /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux 0: OK "Success." so something is running the problem is i don't know what reading thorough the manpages... Any input is still welcome Luca
and finally.. checking auth.log (which i had a look at before but at that time saslauthd was not starting so it had no hints) i found i was autenticationg against the wrong username... i had the $myhostname added by saslauthd. i seem to remeber another thread referred to that... smtpd_sasl_local_domain = solved the problem. Thanks for reading and helping Luca
