Re: Postfix smtp auth problem

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Re: Postfix smtp auth problem
you can increase the logging level of postfix sasl authentication to
help troubleshoot but if I was going to take an off-hand guess, I would
guess that cyrus-saslauthd wasn't configured for pam (or whatever you
need for authentication backend)

Craig

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:35 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> LOL - I know I have done it before with postfix & MySQL but
> 1) I was folowing a set of majic spells and never botherd to learn
> because it was a one off thing - but it worked esaly :)
> 2) I inherited a broken implementation and I can not get it to change
> no matter what I do - I ca not turn it off, on, change the error, no
> matter what I do. If I could not change other aspects of the server I
> would wonder if the service was not on a different box! This lead to
> my frustration with SASL on this box.
>
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Craig White <> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 20:36 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> >> I firmly agree however Eric believed it was an issue with cyrus -
> >> which I am not using. As far as SASL authentication - Only the mobile
> >> clients are trying to use SASL. The desktop clients work perfectly
> >> without it. I have tried disabling it in main.cf but the mobile
> >> clients are still trying to use it. I can not figure out why! So I
> >> now believe I need to just try and get it working again but I can not
> >> find a pure Postfix/SMTP how too.
> > ----
> > Links to both SASL & TLS authentication
> >
> > http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html
> >
> > I don't understand your reticence to implementing saslauthd - it's
> > trivial.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
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