I've gone back to basics and resinstalled using the debian 3.1 guide. i've followed the postfix part to the letter and am now trying to send an email using smtp in thunderbird. i added a system user, set the password then set the thunderbird smtp user name as the same. it then asks for my password word and i enter it but it is rejected and asks for the password again. i want to test the user/password using telnet in the system but I don't know how to accomplish this. Am i using the right username/password (i.e. i just used adduser to create an account in root)? /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf reads pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login i'm getting really confused with all this and searching google only seems to make things worse as everyone has different methods to do it.
trying to find this Code: auth method in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd: SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH = shadow (this was set to PAM before) as described in this thread http://howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6524 but i dont have that directory or file.
What happens when you do find / -name saslauthd It might be in a different place. My output: Code: # find / -name saslauthd /usr/sbin/saslauthd /etc/log.d/scripts/services/saslauthd /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd /etc/rc.d/init.d/saslauthd /var/run/saslauthd It might be residing in /etc/default. I read at least one recipe where the file was to be there. jjw
i changed /etc/default/saslauthd mechanisms variable to "sasldb" and used the saslpasswd2 program to add a user. this authenticated just fine. the problem now is that this is not compatible with VHCS2 and the authentication has since disappeared and I am back to square one.
ok after a lot of fiddling about I am starting to get somewhere.... I have managed to authenticate my smtp for vhcs accounts by changing /etc/default/saslauthd to Code: MECHANISMS="rimap -O 127.0.0.1" This then allowed me to send mail using the email address as defined in my VHCS account. HOwever, I have a paid for account with postmaster.co.uk and require my own smtp server to send email,but i couldnt use my smtp server to send from it because the user wouldnt authenticate with the email address i was sending from. I kind of fixed this by adding the ip of my ISP into main.cf but this is not a good solution becuase I cannot use my smtp from any other ip range. Code: mynetworks = 8x.2xx.xxx.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 and this allowed me to send email from the ip address of my isp using my smtp account. Ideally I would like to be able to create an authenticated SMTP user that has nothing todo with VHCS. I managed this before by adding a user to the sasldb2 file but this stopped working when i installed VHCS. I am totally unsure why that IMAP thing in the mechanisms worked. Maybe someone can explain that to me. To be honest, i wasnt even going to bother testing it because I didnt think i was using imap in the first place. main.cf Code: command_directory = /usr/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix program_directory = /usr/lib/postfix inet_interfaces = all #mynetworks_style = host mynetworks = 8x.2xx.xxx.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 myhostname = viking mydomain = viking.local myorigin = $mydomain smtpd_banner = $myhostname VHCS2 2.4 Spartacus Managed ESMTP 2.4.6.2 setgid_group = postdrop mydestination = $myhostname, $mydomain append_dot_mydomain = no append_at_myorigin = yes local_transport = local virtual_transport = virtual transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vhcs2/transport mail_spool_directory = /var/mail mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" biff = no alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases local_destination_recipient_limit = 1 local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname $alias_database irtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/virtual virtual_mailbox_limit = 0 virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/vhcs2/domains virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vhcs2/mailboxes virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vhcs2/aliases virtual_minimum_uid = 1002 virtual_uid_maps = static:1002 virtual_gid_maps = static:8 smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_local_domain = vhcs.net broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination If anyone can now show me how to setup a proper SMTP user that doesnt require VHCS but will still validate my VHCS email accounts I would be very happy.
Replace Code: smtpd_sasl_local_domain = vhcs.net with Code: smtpd_sasl_local_domain = and restart Postfix.
