hi all, I deploy enviroment with postfix and dovecot but not worked.
look my settings. soft_bounce = no myhostname = mail.domain.com mydomain = domain.com myorigin = $mydomain inet_interfaces = all mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 172.16.1.0/24, 10.0.0.0/24, 0.0.0.0/0 alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases recipient_delimiter = + mailbox_command = /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP virtual_mailbox_domains = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_base = /var/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 150 virtual_uid_maps = static:150 virtual_gid_maps = static:8 virtual_transport = dovecot smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/private/auth smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/filtered_domains permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination but smtp not worked with auth plain. but I also have a mysql server by my understanding, the sasl uses to authenticate users from smtp dovecot so the parameter "smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot", correct? funny that the dovecot is working, as much as pop imap. I did see the tests via smtp authentication perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\000u...@domain.com\000123456");' AHVzZXIuY29tADEyMzQ1Ng== root@mail:/var/spool/mail# telnet mail.domain.com 25 Trying 200.103.17.242... Connected to mail.domain.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.domain.com ESMTP ehlo client 250-mail.domain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-AUTH PLAIN 250-AUTH=PLAIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN AUTH PLAIN AHVzZXIuY29tADEyMzQ1Ng== 535 5.7.0 Error: authentication failed: maillog Oct 17 13:58:26 mail postfix/smtpd[15324]: connect from unknown[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Oct 17 13:58:38 mail postfix/smtpd[15324]: warning: unknown[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: Any Idea. thanks