On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 03:51:13PM -0400, William Holt wrote: > hi, new to the forum. I'm running arch and have postfix/cyrus.
Generally I recommend Dovecot for SASL and IMAP. > I can telnet to the smtp daemon, smtp is running and acceptd > connection: > ---------telnet #.#.#.# 25------ > [remotehost ~]# telnet #.#.#.# 25 > Trying 192.168.1.x... > Connected to 192.168.1.x. 1. You are munging an RFC1918 address? Why? 2. Typically AUTH should be offered on submission, not smtp. See RFC6409 and the commented "submission" example in master.cf. snip > auth plain (base64encodedstring) > 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure Cyrus SASL did not like the credentials as presented. Nothing more can be said. You might find testsaslauth(1) (provided by, and possibly also supported by Cyrus SASL) helpful in debugging. > ]# cat /etc/postfix/main.cf As the list welcome message told you, this is not recommended. In your case, saslfinger might be useful. http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail > broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes Why? > smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname My WAG would be that this is the problem. See the Cyrus SASL documentation and: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_sasl_local_domain > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,check_relay_domains What? Why are you using check_relay_domains here? Long ago deprecated. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
