[PLUG] postfix/sasl

Brian Beattie beattie at beattie-home.net
Mon Jun 21 06:11:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 02:27, Kris wrote:
> Following on the heels of a previous post on postfix and tls/sasl.
> 

I have tls installed and I'm using saslauthd, but I'll give you what I
have where it differs.

> Trying to get sasl to work.  No TLS working yet (prerequisite?).
> Running Debian 3.0 with backports for postfix-tls and sasl2.
> 
> /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf:
> pwcheck_method: PAM

I have:
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

> 
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated

I ALSO have:
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

> /etc/default/saslauthd:
> START=yes
> MECHANISMS="pam"
> 

Yep!

> 
> Once I reload postifx with this config smtpd fails to deliver mail with
> this error in the logs:
> vir postfix/smtpd[8400]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

I'd guess this is either the "pwcheck_method" or the lack of tls,
hopefully others will chime in.
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