My wife uses her laptop connected wirelessly to the network, but sending mail has failed since I upgraded postfix to 2.5.2 and enabled SASL authorization. Thunderbird keeps asking for her password on the server when she tries to send mail (incoming mail reaches her inbox with no problems) and won't complete the attempt.
From /var/log/maillog: Aug 29 10:30:04 salmo postfix/smtpd[5938]: connect from wap.appl-ecosys.com[192.168.55.200] Aug 29 10:30:04 salmo postfix/smtpd[5938]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied Aug 29 10:30:04 salmo postfix/smtpd[5938]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Aug 29 10:30:04 salmo postfix/smtpd[5938]: warning: wap.appl-ecosys.com[192.168.55.200]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure So, it's with my postfix setup. Reading again the SASL_README file, /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf contains: # Global parameters log_level: 4 pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN More: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ telnet salmo.appl-ecosys.com 25 Trying 192.168.55.1... Connected to salmo.appl-ecosys.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 salmo.appl-ecosys.com ESMTP Postfix EHLO client.example.com 250-salmo.appl-ecosys.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 32768000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN AUTH PLAIN AHRlc3QAdGVzdHBhc3M= 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure The above uses the base64 code from the README file; my actual trial used the code for her actual username and password. I created /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd with my server, her username, and her password. Also modified /etc/postfix/main.cf so it now includes smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_type = cyrus What have I missed? I'd really like to fix this issue for her as quickly as I can. TIA, Rich
