ok, it's 3 days I'm tryin to fix my smtp connection, I have been through the whole configuration many times and getting the certificates also.
The last thing I did is add this line again in /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd which changed the error into a warning for postfix: warning: foo[b.a.r.x]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure then, same for LOGIN: postfix/smtpd[3962]: warning: foo[b.a.r.x]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure I used this howto at first: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/virt-mail-howto.xml and it was working for a long time. I can post mor info if you need. thx Laurent