* BABEDH-DHRA <babedh-d...@biggdog.biz>:
> "I understand you want to use Dovecot as SASL provider. In this case the
> configuration (see below) you are currently trying to use is leading you
> completely the wrong way.
>
> Take a look at the section "Configuring Dovecot SASL" in the SASL_README
> (/usr/share/doc/postfix/SASL_README.gz> that is shipped with Postfix.
>
> Here's what you basically need to do:
>
> 1. Configure Dovecot to provide an authentication socket for Postfix 2.
> Configure Postfix to use that socket.
>
> Step 2 might be a little extra complicated if you run your Postfix server
> chrooted, which is the default on Debian/Ubuntu machines.
>
> I do not have that in that folder.
Maybe you first need to get the documentation:
# aptitude install postfix-doc
> I am trying to do just that. I need to try to understand if I need to add
> or subtract the text that is described in the
You need to add the configuration described below to Dovecot in
/etc/dovecot.conf or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf. If you don't know where to add
the configuration options find out where dovecot.conf was installed:
# dpkg -L dovecot-common | grep dovecot.conf
> Postfix to Dovecot SASL communication.
>
> 1 /etc/dovecot.conf:
> 2 auth default {
> 3 mechanisms = plain login
> 4 passdb pam {
> 5 }
> 6 userdb passwd {
> 7 }
> 8 socket listen {
> 9 client {
> 10 path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
> 11 mode = 0660
> 12 user = postfix
> 13 group = postfix
> 14 }
> 15 }
> 16 }
>
> In my dovecot.conf I have references to mysql in there. Do I not need to
> worry about them and just paste this in or uncomment.
You MUST NOT paste the example. Instead you need to merge it into the existing
structure. You probably only need to uncomment the "client {}" section.
p...@rick
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