Rich Shepard:
> 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
This is an error message from Cyrus SASL.
There are lots of hits when you search the web for:
cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
Likely one of them will have the answer.
Wietse