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Author: Bryan O'Neal
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Subject: Re: Postfix smtp auth problem
LOL - Box will not come back online after desperate restart - could
have been more wrong with it then I thought ;)

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Craig White <> wrote:
> 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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