Postfix smtp auth problem

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 15:35 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I see nothing in /etc/courier-imap/ that would levee me to believe
> this is true. There must be a way to not use SASL - since the desktop
> clients are not using SASL. I do not see the point in setting up a
> base 64 SASL authentication just for one set of phones. What I can not
> figure out is!
> 
> My configuration is postfix + courier w/ ssl/tsl + maildir + spam assasin
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what does this have to do with courier anyway?

If you are trying to authenticate to send e-mail via postfix, the
methodology is clearly described on postfix.org website and yes, it uses
saslauthd which is a cyrus package but entirely separate from
cyrus-imap/courier/etc.

It's primarily a small daemon that provides the link to your system
authentication and rather trivial to set up (note that you probably have
to enable it in postfix/main.cf). Postfix uses sasl for authorization
and if you have a system in place that is capable of authenticating sasl
(ldap?) then you could probably work around not install cyrus-saslauthd
but it would be much more work.

Craig


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