[pfx] No Postfix novice, but need novice-like advice (was Postfix or Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-08 Thread Richard Troy via Postfix-users
Hi All, This is my first posting here, and maybe I should have found this WAY back in January, '23, if not LONG before. Surely background will help: This 27 or so year old site now with Fedora / Postfix / Dovecot (with early adoption of all three) that I built was humming along just fine u

self-signed certificates - was Re: Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
Noel, this is not a big deal to me, but here's where I became concerned about self-signed certs: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Noel Jones wrote: > > On 3/12/2012 12:14 PM, Richard Troy wrote: > > The documentation found here: > > > > http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.h

Re: Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Wietse Venema wrote: > > You're supposed to share the result, not say "looks correct". As > the reporter of a problem, you are in the worst position to say > that things are correct, because if you were able to see your > mistake, then you would not be posting on this mailin

FIXED! Re: Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Larry Stone wrote: > > > It's not clear if you're trying to do this on port 25 or port 587 > > (submission). > > I'd be keen to know how I can, if I should, offload port 25; as I > indicated I'm using port 25 because I didn't stumble over any other course > of action. Pleas

Re: Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Larry Stone wrote: > > I haven't seen any followups with the request postconf -n output but: > Um, nobody asked for it; Wietse only said it was preferred over sharing the values individually. -smile- However, I'll take your statement as an implicit request - it's below. > It

Re: Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Wietse Venema wrote: > Output from the "postconf -n" command is preferred here. If this > output differs from what you expect, then that it a possible > contributor to the problem. Yes, already checked: high fidelity, no discrepancies. > TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.p

Re: Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
Herr Harald, > please describe you problem a little shorter Ja, klein. > with dovecot 2.x the follwoing in "dovecot.conf" is Using 1.2.8. > the mode/owner/group No, not missed, however: > unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { My code reads: path = /var/spool/postfix/private/au

Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
Hello Folks, I've been the admin of a site that uses Postfix with Dovecot on RedHat since, oh, gosh, maybe 1996? It's been a long time. I've never built it from source, though, just used the rpms (and I wonder if maybe that's my problem now). It just works, is reliable, and lets me be a very-part