On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:56:06AM +0100, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 11/13/2010 12:34 AM, Pete wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I have finally attained the unenviable position of being able to > >effortlessly see > >the entire wood without being able to clearly identify a single tree. IOW, > >I'm > >completely stuck. > > > >OS = Centos 5.5 (2.6.18-194.26.1.el5) x86_64 > >Postfix = postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 > >Dovecot = dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5 > > > >Goal = Enable SMTP AUTH using Postfix and Dovecot > >Problem = Postfix cannot locate a suitable authentication mechanism ?
[snip configuration] > Looks similar to mine in all the essentials, although again, 1.0.7 is > quite old (I have 1.2.9) > You'll have to dig in to the dovecot side to find out what is going wrong. Thanks for the informative response Jeroen. I will make the changes you suggested and look further into my dovecot set up. I'll also look into upgrading Postfix and Dovecot. Regards, Pete.
