John WH Smith: > On 28/05/14 19:41, Wietse Venema wrote: > > You move sockets, but how do you know that the SASL library (invoked > > by smtpd) is really connected to the saslauthd process? > > I actually created the appropriate symlinks to avoid path breaking. Fact > is : if it was related to an non-existant process/file (which Postfix > wouldn't connect to), I would get more than just "authentication failure".
OK, so you did not verify that the two actually talk to each other. You are assuming that they did, without having observed actual evidence that the socket call worked. My support ends here. Wietse