Postfix smtp auth problem

[Bryan O'Neal]

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.

First time Postfix has ever stumped me. Also the first time I am
trying to use mobile clients that I can not emulate ;)

(Speaking of which - anyone know of a Palm Trio 600 - 755p emulator?
All I can find are WebOS emulators.)

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 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
> ----
> 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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