On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:24:54PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Still posting from iceape.
No, now posting from mutt > > > > I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't > > remember entering such a line. I believe it was automatically > > generated or picked up from some previous configuration. > > You mean the 'mydestination'. I think this is required to get local > mail working. Here is mine: > > mydestination = myhostname.homenet, localhost.homenet, localhost Found I must leave out myhostname.homenet or mail sent from mutt to [EMAIL PROTECTED] never leaves the LAN but is posted directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], fetched by fetchmail and read by mutt. On the other hand the localhost entries are necessary. If missing mutt never sees the messages fetched by fetchmail, they are left in a queue somewhere. > > That means that any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > has to be delivered locally (as opposed to relaying it through the > smarthost). > . . . > > * I think you need the package libsasl2-modules (in etch it's only a > recommends but in unstable it's a depends of postfix) I installed this package with no immediate effect > > * in /etc/postfix/main.cf > Next I used vi to insert the following lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > smtp_sasl_type = cyrus > smtp_sasl_security_options = > > (Yes I know, the last option is left empty, but there was a bug, not > sure if it's fixed ... maybe I should try) > > * then you need to create a file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd with something > like: > > [mail.server.com] user:password > > (the square brackets are not mandatory, but might prevent some problems) > I created this file but in /etc/postfix/sasl/ as somewhere there is a note that this is the Debian way. With the brackets in fails, without them it works. Note that I have entered outgoing.verizon.net as the relay host and so that is the entry for mail.server.com in sasl_password. > * run 'postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd' and don't forget to > chmod it 600 as you have the password in clear text. > > Restart postfix and try again. Thanks for your help Andrei, without it I might never have figured this out. I hope I have explained it simply now - Tom George > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
