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> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 21:05:26 +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter <p...@sys4.de> wrote:
> > * Mail List <maill...@nerdworld.org>:
> >> I am in the process of setting up postfix 2.9.6, postgrey, and dovecot
> >> 2.1.7 on a clean install of Debian wheezy 7.6 AMD. I'm doing this very
> >> systematically in a VirtualBox virtual machine, which lets me
> experiment
> >> and screw up the settings, since I just recreate the VM if I makes
> things
> >> unusable.
> >>
> >> I've gotten to the point that postfix, postgrey, and dovecot all work
> >> just
> >> fine. I can send & receive eMails (relaying outgoing mail through my
> >> comcast account). However, I'm stuck on setting up SASL authorization
> >> for
> >> incoming SMTP connections. Up until the time I try to implement SASL
> >> authorization, I can successfully telnet into the system for SMTP and
> >> IMAP
> >> connections. Once I try to start SASL authorization it all goes
> >> horribly
> >> wrong.
> >>
> >> I can't even get SMTP to work.
> >>
> >> #telnet localhost 25
> >> Trying ::1...
> >> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> >> Connected to localhost.
> >> Escape character is '^]'.
> >> Connection closed by foreign host.
> >>
> >> /var/log/mail.info shows:
> >> Oct 5 14:29:31 VMailServerTest postfix/smtpd[16181]: connect from
> >> localhost[127.0.0.1]
> >> Oct 5 14:29:31 VMailServerTest postfix/smtpd[16181]: warning: SASL:
> >> Connect to private/auth failed: Permission denied
> >
> > Postfix smtpd daemon cannot write to dovecot's socket. Either because
> the
> > perms are wrong or because the socket belongs to the wrong user.
> >
> > Try this in dovecot's 10-master.conf:
> >
> > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
> > mode = 0600
> > user = postfix
> > group = postfix
> > }
> >
> >
>
>
> Thanks for your suggestion Patrick! Changing the mode didn't work, but I
> think you are on the right track. I played around with permissions on the
> socket. Here is the directory entry for the socket file:
>
> srw------- 1 root root 0 Oct 5 15:13 /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>
>
> Interestingly, I tried changing the perms to 777 (wide open!) it worked!.
> Also, if I left the file permissions to 600 and set the owner and group to
> postfix, it also worked.
>
> Unfortunately, restarting postfix wiped out any changes and reset the file
> to the root owner and default permissions, so there must be some setting
> somewhere that I'm missing.
>
> Any ideas?
Dovecot creates and controls the socket. Did you apply the changes I suggested
to dovecot?
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