[PLUG] Xubuntu/Thunderbird Outbound Mail

[Chris Roberts]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu/Thunderbird Outbound Mail
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic 
<plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Date: 08/30/2008 02:43 PM

> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, wes wrote:
> 
>> It's true that mail functionality is not broken, but my point is that you're
>> not likely to break said mail functionality by playing with saslauthd.
> 
> Wes,
> 
>    Somewhere a directory had incorrect permissions.
> 
>> If that is the case, you may want to consider finding another way to
>> authenticate that host.
> 
>    I had not tried to enable SASL authorization until the most recent postfix
> upgrade. Since there is only one affected user, and we had no security
> issues over the preceeding years, I just disabled the check.
> 
>    Her mail flows outbound once again and I can use the time for more
> important things ... such as client work.
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> Rich
> 

Since you have disabled it anyway, this is probably of little use, but I 
came across this in the README for SASL:

"IMPORTANT: pwcheck establishes a UNIX domain socket in /var/pwcheck and 
waits for authentication requests. The Postfix SMTP server must have 
read+execute permission to this directory or authentication attempts 
will fail."

From: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html